At The SAM Club, we’re passionate about finding smart ways to help our clients reduce costs. With Microsoft’s price increases scheduled for July 2026, one of our clients faced their annual Microsoft True-up for their Enterprise Agreement (EA).
Here’s what we did:
- Requested a quote to move 431 x M365 E5 licenses to the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program, while maintaining the contractual minimum of 500 licenses in the EA.
Note: Check the agreement as Microsoft may have added an addendum to increase the minimum number of licenses from 500 as part of a concession agreement.
The initial quote suggested savings of just over £7,000 per year. But based on our experience, we knew there was room for improvement—so we challenged the reseller.
The result?
Annual savings of nearly £17,000 for our client.
And it gets even better: when their EA expires in February 2028, the remaining M365 E5 licenses can also be moved to CSP at the pricing we’ve secured, giving them an extra year, taking them to February 2029 at the current unit rate before the July 2026 price increase takes effect.
If you haven’t spoken to us about our Software Asset Management service, you could be missing out on significant cost savings like this.
Get in touch today and let’s start saving you money.