Outsourcing - Fact or Hype? Part 3

Date: Thursday, December 19, 2002 2:12 PM

H-1B and JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

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As long as President Bush sees nothing wrong with outsourcing of IT jobs to
overseas sweatshops it's a sure bet that this trend will accelerate.

Tom Davis, if you remember, while speaking as chair of the Republican
Congressional Campaign Committee about the 2000 H-1B
increase said, ``This is not a popular bill with the public. It's popular
with the CEOs...This is a very important issue for the high-tech executives
who give the money.'' Davis voted in favor of H-1B shortly after his speech.

http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021213S0035

Overseas Outsourcing A Possibility For Federal IT Projects

Two top federal IT policy makers don't philosophically object to the
government's outsourcing some IT work overseas.

By Eric Chabrow, InformationWeek
Dec 13, 2002 (12:00 AM)
URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021213S0035

Rep. Tom Davis, the Virginia Republican who chairs the House Subcommittee on
IT and Procurement Policy, says contracting overseas programmers to write
nonsensitive, nonstrategic government software could be a way to save
taxpayer money. "I don't have a problem if work for the government--if it's
done cheaper, same quality, talking about best values--is going offshore,"
he told InformationWeek. Davis points out that most of the overseas work
would likely be part of outsourcing contracts awarded to American firms. "I
see my job as trying to be an honest broker here to get the best value for
the country."

Outsourcing IT work overseas doesn't bother Bush administration IT czar Mark
Forman, either. "We don't care if it's built overseas or in the U.S., as
long as it's built to the same high standards," says Forman, chief enforcer
of the fed's IT policy as associate director for IT and E-government at the
Office of Management and Budget.

But Forman doesn't see much of need to outsource IT work overseas. Offshore
outsourcing would be employed mostly to develop customized apps or tailor
off-the-shelf software, he says. Government agencies should use packaged
software as it comes out of the box. Says Forman: "We don't want to spend
taxpayers' money turning off best practices embedded in off-the-shelf
software."

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