SELECT Program Agreement
Catalog row in Vendor License Sources · Cited
- Kind
- Contract
- Format
- HTML
- Document id
- Last Modified: April 1, 2026
- Applies to
- SELECT Program Terms (coverage, product licensing, pooled licensing, term licences, SELECT Open Access, Portfolio Balancing, no-charge licences, evaluation, subscription licensing and CALs, fees, term and termination) plus the shared General Terms and Conditions (definitions, payment, records and audit, IP, virtualized environments, warranty, Bentley contract entities), Support and Maintenance Terms, Services Terms, Cloud Offering Terms, Cloud Services Subscription Terms and Country-Specific Terms.
- Evidence
- SELECT must cover all Bentley licences held
- Pooled Usage entitlement equals licences owned at each Site
- Pooling rights end when SELECT ends, even for perpetual licences
- Subscriber must not interfere with Usage Data transmission
- Excess Use is invoiced as Term Licenses for the quarterly peak per Site and Product
- Unpaid Term License Fees allow technical restriction and loss of pooling
- SELECT Open Access bills the quarterly peak of all Eligible Product use
- Portfolio Balancing request at least 30 days before a renewal anniversary
- SELECT evaluation copies limited to 30 days and one copy per Site
- CALs are named-user subscriptions counted over a three-month period
- Product Subscription Licenses never outlast the Agreement
- SELECT fees priced in the local currency of the Site of use
- SELECT runs 12 months and auto-renews unless 30 days notice
- SELECT reinstatement fee can reach all fees for the lapsed period
- Licence transfers need consent and the transferee must join SELECT
- Audit can follow suspect Usage Data; inspection on seven days notice (program agreements)
- Each session in a Virtualized Environment needs its own licence
- Virtualized Environment rights end with the program agreement
- A Site is bounded by a single Country
- Change of control is an assignment; the survivor must sign a program agreement
- No disclosure of benchmarks without Bentley consent
- Late payments accrue 1.5% interest per month
- CSS initial payment is a twelve-month estimate, replenished before depletion
- Positive CSS balance returned within 30 days of termination