Royal Mail introduced a new PAF® Data Licence Agreement effective from 1st April 2010. Although this agreement does not contain the new licence structure for products derived from Postzon (e.g. our GIS Base Table), we have extracted the relevant matrix of fees which is presented below. There are significant changes from the previous VAR Agreement fee structure including;
1. Royal Mail have completely removed LOCALITY level licensing although we begged them not to. The "Part PAF®" fees will cover data at Thoroughfare level or below.
2. The per user licence fees for Full PAF® and Part PAF® have been reduced.
3. There are no "System" or "Multi-System" licences. Instead volume licensing is by 300 user blocks with a cap at 900 for internal use, or unlimited external transactions.
4. From April 2010 BPH are able to offer various additional options to licence access to PAF® on a transactional basis reflecting the true usage of the data. (Transaction licensing was not allowed under our previous reseller agreement).
The licence fee matrix for April 2010 is as follows:
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Per Area/LRS1 |
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1. Full PAF® (Delivery Point Level) |
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Per User (up to & inc 55 users) |
£75.00 |
£2.00 |
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Per 300 User Block |
£4,125.00 |
£50.00 |
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Unlimited User Block (i.e. >900 users) |
£12,375.00 |
£150.00 |
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Internal Transactions x 100 block 2 |
£8.00 |
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External Transaction x 100 block 2 |
£1.00 |
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External Transaction Unlimited (>400k) |
£4,000.00 |
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2. Part PAF® (Thoroughfare/Locality Level) |
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Per User (up to & inc 37 users) |
£30.00 |
£0.50 |
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Per 300 User Block |
£1,110.00 |
£12.50 |
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Unlimited User Block (i.e. >900 users) |
£3,330.00 |
£37.50 |
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Internal Transactions x 100 block 2 |
£4.00 |
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External Transaction x 100 block 2 |
£0.50 |
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External Transaction Unlimited (>400k) |
£2,000.00 |
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1. LRS = "Limited Record Selection" (i.e. max 200k records over up to 4 adjacent areas).
2. BPH will operate a minimum block size of 1000 transactions for both Internal & External Use.
The April 2010 licence also includes advanced options for "Associate User Group", "Broker Group" and "Extended Use" solutions. Definitions and parameters are quite complex so please contact us for further details.
Please note that any changes to the Royal Mail licence fees will be effective from the first annual renewal date following the introduction of the new Royal Mail licence in April 2010.
For a copy of the main terms and conditions of the new PAF® licence, ensure you have a few hours to spare, take a very deep breath - and click T&C's.