Offshore contract is a special form of a time and material contract, allowing the customer to hire our own dedicated and exclusive team of offshore consultants for a specified period. As the customer may also assist in choosing or recruiting the members of the offshore team, he will have the possibility of creating his own offshore dedicated software development centre, without having to invest in India himself.

Just like hiring a contractors team in US, billing will be on a bi-monthly / monthly basis and will be proportional to the number of worked days by the team members. AdvanSoft Worldwide understands that for offshore team contracts, a maximum of transparency to the customer will be necessary. Therefore the client shall have access to our operations tools, which will be made available to the customer for remote project reporting. Also a timesheet application will be made available for tracking of the consumed days. The AdvanSoft Worldwide offshore management team will also assist the customer in the daily management of the dedicated offshore team.

For customers having regular and longer term needs of personnel, the offshore contracting concept has many benefits compared to the other contract types and may prove to be a very interesting way of working:

First of all the team members will be co-selected by the customer, resulting in an optimal set up of the team.

The team members are dedicated to one specific customer and will not be used for other customer projects. This greatly adds to the continuity and stability of the team. Moreover, as more and projects are being executed by the same team, this team will grow in knowledge on the customers coding standards, the methodology and above all the customer business processes. Gradually, the team will not only be able to code according specification, but also to start contributing on the business analysis and hence generate more values for the customer.

Finally and last but not least, due to the long term contract commitment, the daily rates will be the most competitive of all contract forms.

In the business offerings, we encourage the customer to visit the offshore team on a very regular basis, for project follow up or briefings on new projects to come. Also, the contract allows to define certain "low work" periods in the year where no works will be outsourced to the offshore team, with the guarantee that the same team can be activated again after a while (some compensation fee will have to be billed during the non active time).