Outsourcing: benchmark your provider without hassle
Savvy IT outsourcing customers insist on including <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/29102/Outsourcer_Benchmarking_The_Sanity_Clause">benchmarking clauses</a> in their IT services contracts. Benchmarking clauses are beneficial to outsourcing customers because they allow the customer to bring in a third party to assess the competitiveness of the outsourcer's prices.