CSIs best practice to get the best oracle deals

One company acquired multiple small companies, now time to re-new oracle support , we have 7 CSIs and paying for all of them, 6 of them with quantity 1-2 (and not sure even anybody using it) , any way to check if someone using that CSIs?
one with quantity 50 (Oracle Database Enterprise Edition) >>this one only DBAs need and using it....
What the best practice in this case to utilize/get best support @ best price? My idea is to just consolidate all CSIs in one and ask for oracle any discounts...make me right if i am not, new to this topic.....

I think you can go on MOS for each of those CSI's and create an administrator who can look to see what has been used (if you are asking how to see if anyone is using support). Note that this can be completely misleading, as someone may be using one CSI to, say get patches for all the supported environments. You might also think who needs to get notified, support is pretty inflexible about it.
I someone disagree with what ajallen said about the purchasing department doing these negotiations, as I have seen, er, a wide variety of ability there. It might be worth it to get one of those license specialist companies, though I wouldn't know which are good. From what I've seen, Oracle will try to charge you to desupport unused licensing, and sometimes do other nasty things if you have hardware on their poop-list (think hp). On the pollyana side, if you can dangle a potential database consolidation sale in front of them, they might play nice.

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