Points to consider when outsourcing a project with another programmer.

Question

Hello,

I'm Chandan, I work as freelance Programmer and Website Design / Development.

Lately I got quite a bunch a projects and I want to outsource one of them. What points should I include the Agreement between the Programmer and my Company.

We already agreed on a price and we agreed to have source code and software also included.

Please advise the points that I will need to consider or send me a mockup of the Agreement if possible please.

Thank You For Your Support and Help.

Yours

Chandan A

Multisoft Systems Ltd

Answer 1

I'm not sure how you'd word this in your agreement. But I've previously worked in an organisation which had a lot of trouble with the following during outsourcing, especially if the job was outsourced overseas...

1. How/When you will be able to contact the other party (especially if you're in a different timezone)
2. How to have control over them using third party suppliers (re-outsourcing) to do some of the work. You may not have a problem with this but you should at least make sure they run it past you before doing so
3. Make sure your IP clauses are very specific about who owns what (and also consider things like whether they might include libraries with not-so friendly licensing terms.)

Answer 2

Hello gshankar,

The work is being carried out by a freelancer in my own country, i already met him physically and discussed everything and its very clear and visible that the job is not being re-outsourced. So this answers to your question 1 and 2.

Librairies will be included and a fixed price was set by myself for the whole software and source code.

But how do I prepare the agreement since:

My company only will have rights on the software and source code and the freelancer should not sell the softare, source code or even modify the source code etc.... in fact he will not have any rights on the software n code. I want to have agreement being set clearly yo point out all these.

thank you for guiding me.