Comment Putting the cart before the horse? (Score 5, Insightful) 67
How can you already have the conclusion that it is cheaper to outsource? If you don't know who could offer you the services you need, how do you know what they charge? You should investigate your requirements, prepare a bid if you keep in in-house, ask for bids to do it outsourced and compare.
Here's the situation I think you want avoid:
Company: keeping vending machines stocked and maintained is a pain in the butt and it costs us $5000 a month.
I know there are companies that provide this service for $2500.
Concusion : Let's oursource!
Gather requirements, ask for bids to do soda and candy machines.
Best bid $6000 a month. Ooops - the $2500 we knew about was only for Soda.
You have to have your requirements together to get bids to make the initial decision to outsource.
Here's the situation I think you want avoid:
Company: keeping vending machines stocked and maintained is a pain in the butt and it costs us $5000 a month.
I know there are companies that provide this service for $2500.
Concusion : Let's oursource!
Gather requirements, ask for bids to do soda and candy machines.
Best bid $6000 a month. Ooops - the $2500 we knew about was only for Soda.
You have to have your requirements together to get bids to make the initial decision to outsource.
