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This paper presents an industry practice case in public administration from Catalonia, Spain. The Catalan regional government decided in 2004 to design and enforce a prequalification strategy for their IT services vendors, in order to improve the quality of the involved outsourcing processes and outcomes. Within this wider context, in this paper we focus in the description and analysis of the specific strategy and criteria designed for pre-qualifying vendors for software development services. We explain the faced challenges and the rationale behind the criteria. These were updated in mid-2008, after the insights drawn from the first four years of experience. In fact, the Catalan Government pretends to refine regularly their prequalification strategy, in general for all IT services but more specifically for software development services. These account for the biggest part of their budget, the most varied set of service sub-categories, and the greatest number of involved companies.
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Marco-Simó, J.M., Pastor, J.A., Macau, R. (2010). The Catalan Government Prequalification Strategy for Software Development Suppliers. In: Nordio, M., Joseph, M., Meyer, B., Terekhov, A. (eds) Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development. SEAFOOD 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 54. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13784-6_8
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