Comment by JoeAltmaier

Agreed. 20 years, and I've never seen a return on an outsourced project. The overseas company whittles the specs down so far, your own guys could do it in a weekend. The cost of managing is larger than the value received: barriers include language, timezone, network access, culture, currency, import/export rules. The culture one is huge. Many cultures, a worker won't contradict a boss for any reason. So you're trying to get an expert opinion out of them about how to proceed, they're just saying "Uh huh, yes boss".