Sonal Maheshwari

A sourcing partner just confirms requirements from you and keeps you updated on the progress and the features along with time-lines and costs. All the other overheads are his responsibility, from RFP creation to negotiation, contracts and even allocating a project manager to take care of it. It provides all end to end services to the clients.

These type of firms known as risk free sourcing partners provide a huge advantage to small and medium businesses looking to outsource their projects. There is not much overhead for an organization taking help of sourcing partners. They themselves locate best service provider from their huge network of pre-credentialed service providers.

Outsourcing has always been used to save resources and hence getting a competitive edge, but with economies slowing down it has become a very risky proposition for companies to outsource as loss can even make them go out of business. But a new trend which has evolved over recent years is SMBs/SMEs outsourcing to get the advantages which only big organizations were cashing on till now. They outsource but a few problems that stick out are should they outsource to big tier 1 service providers or should they locate tier 2 service provider which may increase the savings considerably. These and other small issues require a proper consultancy for SMBs to resolve them. A few companies are working towards the same cause these days. USourceIT is one such organization which helps SMBs/SMEs locate the pre-credentialed service providers from their network and hence outsourcing with all risks covered.

USourceIT provides a set of services and tools that help small and medium businesses outsource IT services. This include tools for Scoping and creating the RFP using configurable templates, searching for pre-screened service providers, inviting them for bids, scoring and ranking proposals to contracting. The entire project is also overseen by a senior project manager to manage the quality and timelines.
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