For folks who've never seen one of these.<p>132-33 - Price for a Palantir server, priced per core. $141k per core. Includes 1 year of "maintenance" (support and software upgrades).<p>132-34 - This is the maintenance for second year on. $28k per core.<p>How many users can a core support? I dunno. But let's say you can serve 50 people off of a 4-core system (you can redo the math for the number of users).<p>You initial purchase is $564k. Or about $11k per user.<p>Each year after that, if you want software updates, it'll cost you $113k or or about $2.2k per year per user.<p>So let's say you use the system for 3 years. That's over $15k of software per user over that time.<p>Plus there's training ~$2k per user. Or another $100k in training costs.<p>And then who knows how many hours of engineering and "ninja" services. But a CONUS (within the U.S.) FSR is billed at about $300k per year for a full-time person on staff. Let's say you need two of them to support those 50 users.<p>Added up for 3 years of Palantir: $1.5million<p>I'll let you decide if that's good value, but that works out to around $30k per user partial TCO (not including power, security, networking, local IT staff support, etc.).
All right in line with just about any sort of "Enterprise" software. Training and implementation services are downright cheap. Maintenance is the standard 20%.<p>The last big vendor PO I had to look at put every professional services line item at $300-360/hr with $320 being about average.
Favourite part: "Palantir is in no way affiliated with, or endorsed or sponsored by, The Saul Zaentz Company d.b.a. Tolkien Enterprises or the Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien."
Do not confuse the GSA schedule with actual implementation cost (or TCO as mentioned below).
The prices are a starting point and as with any relationship, they can (and will, if the buyer is smart) be negotiated.<p>Source: sold & implemented alot of software for the gubbmint.
So what exactly do you get for those prices? Some data munging and analytics? Just hire a few data scientists and give them a map/reduce cluster. But this is the government so that might be more expensive than forking over the cash to Palantir.
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If you read between the lines, notice how the "Palantir Gotham Appliance" for 151,042.82 includes "Palantir recommended...database software licenses."<p>I would bet Oracle (or MS/IBM) is getting a hefty chunk of that.
132-51 CONS
CONUS FSR Support hourly rate. CONUS rates will be billed for Services performed outside the continental U.S. unless in a warzone. Normal business hours are defined as an 8-hour work day (rate is 15% more outside of normal business hours). $ 146.60<p>132-51 OCONS
OCONUS FSR Support hourly rate. OCONUS rates will be billed for Services performed in a warzone. Normal business hours are defined as a 12-hour work day (rate is 15% more outside of normal business hours). $ 195.47
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