Identify Vendor
Requirements
Having identified potentials for outsourcing, you can begin
to list requirements for vendors. These should be divided into technical and
political categories. Don’t even think that one vendor can do all of it. It is
very useful to have a technical vendor and a political vendor for the same type
of work. The technical vendor can tell you what is needed to achieve the desired
results from a work point of view. The political vendor can act as a
counterpoise to indicate how and what is possible. You want to listen to both.
In general, vendor requirements constitute a list of the vendor
will do and how this work relates to the overall project plan. The more complete
the list the better. Here is another guideline:
Associate each task area with potential
outsourcing vendors.
At this point it pays to be very open as to what is needed