Government and public-sector procurement does not fit one commercial shape. Emeron supports perpetual license, subscription, build-operate-transfer, capability-transfer-weighted, and hybrid contracts — and we publish how each one works. The price comes after a scoping call, in writing, with assumptions listed. No list-price theatre.
Government and public-sector procurement does not fit one commercial model. A defence ministry deploying on-premises has a different commercial shape from a city council subscribing to a permit workflow. A multi-year national rollout has a different shape from a single-agency pilot.
Emeron supports five commercial models, intentionally. Most procurements pick one. Some combine two. Below is the public posture; precise pricing is provided after a discovery conversation, because the variables that drive cost — number of agencies, number of users, integration scope, language pairs, deployment topology — are the same variables that drive the entire shape of the deployment.
The orientation is consistent across models: license fees are deliberately weighted away from us and toward your internal capability. The economics work because the customer stays for years longer than they would under a high-services model — not because they cannot leave.
Every Emeron contract is shaped around one of the five models below. Where two models overlap — for example a subscription with an embedded capability-transfer program — the contract names both explicitly. Hybrids are common.
One-time platform license fee with annual support and maintenance. Customer owns the licensed software in perpetuity.
Annual platform license per agency, jurisdiction, or named user-tier. Includes all upgrades, security patches, and standard support.
Emeron builds and operates the deployment for a defined period, then transfers ownership to the customer at a contractual milestone.
Lower license fees deliberately weighted toward academy investment and internal capability. The customer becomes self-sufficient on the platform within 18 months.
Combinations of the above per agency or per module. Common for multi-agency programs where the federal centre operates differently from line agencies.
Pricing variables are unusually similar across our deployments because the platform is unusually similar across deployments — that is what configuration-not-customization buys you. The seven variables below explain the overwhelming majority of cost variation.
Single agency vs. multi-agency vs. federal-scale deployment. Largest single driver of cost.
Cloud subscription is the lowest baseline. On-premises and air-gapped are higher. Hybrid sits in between.
Single-module pilots are priced separately. Full GovStack deployments are priced as a platform.
National identity, national payment switch, legacy registries, central reporting — each is a known unit of work.
Bilingual is standard. Trilingual+ deployments include additional content engineering and accessibility validation.
Standard sovereign deployment vs. classified vs. multi-jurisdiction with conflicting regulatory regimes.
Standard academy program vs. deep program with sovereign codebase governance, fellow exchange, and quarterly reviews.
Most enterprise platform vendors publish list prices that nobody pays, attached to "discount" structures that reward the largest deals. The published number is theatre. The actual number is set in the room.
Government procurement deserves better than theatre. A 30-minute scoping call tells us your deployment shape, and a written proposal — with line items, assumptions, and pricing model options — follows within five business days. The proposal is the price. There is no list-price-and-then-discount dance.
If you are required by your procurement framework to quote a public price range before a scoping call, contact us and we will provide a written budgetary range, in writing, signed by an authorized officer, with the assumptions clearly listed.
A 30-minute scoping call. Five business days. Line-item proposal with assumptions and pricing-model options. No follow-up SDR cadence.