Passport Advantage Program delivers better pricing, aligns software purchases to one anniversary date, and consolidates enterprise sites under one agreement
With the Passport Advantage Program you get:
| Better pricing | One Site | One anniversary date |
| With Relationship Suggested Volume Pricing (RSVP), you earn points on all Eligible Product purchases including IBM Cloud Services, Appliances and Appliance Services, IBM Software Subscription and Support renewals and new licenses. The more you buy the more you save. | Enterprises and organizations with multiple Sites may authorize additional Sites to enroll and purchase under a single Agreement. | With a single annual S&S renewal ‘Anniversary’ date, you get an all-inclusive view of your renewals eliminating the need to reconcile and process multiple renewals throughout the year. |
| Point aggregation: you have the option to aggregate points across multiple Sites to earn higher volume discount levels faster. | Site consolidation offers centralized account, contact, entitlement, purchasing, renewal and reporting management for improved software asset management—saving you administrative time, effort and expense | Start and end dates for new license purchases can be prorated to align with your Anniversary date making it easier to budget for future renewals and predict RSVP savings as you move from one level to the next. |
| Review Passport Advantage Program Volume Pricing for more details. | The Client Originating Company, identified as the Originating Site, is responsible for compliance with the terms and coordination of the activities of each of its participating Enterprise companies, identified as Additional Sites, under the Enterprise’s Passport Advantage Agreement Number. | |
| After 24 consecutive months of inactivity such as no new orders or continuous services in effect, IBM may move Client’s agreement and/or sites into terminated/inactive status. | ||
| Clients should migrate any Product entitlements in Sites not enrolled in the Passport Advantage Program into Sites that are enrolled in the Passport Advantage Program to receive the above benefits. If Client has no Sites enrolled, Client’s should enroll in the Passport Advantage Program and then migrate their entitlements. Refer to How to Enroll. | ||
Passport Advantage Program Volume Pricing
- IBM assigns each offering a point value, which may be zero, and can be changed by IBM.
- A Relationship Suggested Volume Pricing (RSVP) level is determined by aggregating points for all offerings ordered during a 12-month period.
- The point value of Client’s first order determines Client’s initial RSVP level which will be in effect for orders during the next 12 months.
- At the Client’s Anniversary date, Client’s RSVP level is reset based on point value accumulation from orders in the prior 12-month period. Any new RSVP level will apply to orders during the following 12 months. If a higher RSVP level is obtained, it will apply to orders until the Client’s next Anniversary date. If Client’s RSVP level is reset to a lower level, IBM will not lower it by more than one level below Client’s prior RSVP level. A Suggested Volume Pricing (SVP) level is also calculated for each order and is based on the point value for that order. If the SVP level for an order is higher than Client’s current RSVP level, the SVP level will apply to that order.
RSVP/SVP Level Table
RSVP/SVP Level | BL | D | E | F | G | H |
Points | <500 | 500 | 1,000 | 2,500 | 5,000 | 10,000 |
- Client’s Sites enrolled as a Government Site or Academic Volume Option Site receive applicable discounted pricing and the above volume pricing does not apply. To receive Academic Volume Option pricing, EPs must be used for academic or administrative purposes only and may not be used for commercial purposes.
It’s important that you understand the agreement terms.
It offers better pricing, simplified Site administration and one annual software renewal anniversary date. To take advantage of these benefits, enroll in the Program.
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