White paper  ·

Outsourcing 101

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The offshore staffing RFP kit

By

Connext

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Published on

October 24, 2026

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‍

min read

Compare offshore staffing providers with 45 vetted questions, a weighted scoring framework, and SLA language that holds up past month six.

35%

Faster estimate turnaround

$180K

Saved in annual overhead

3 weeks

To onboard estimators

0

Missed bid deadlines

Summary

Most offshore staffing providers promise fast hiring. Far fewer can show how they keep employees supported, managed, and on the job after month six. The Offshore Staffing Vendor Evaluation Kit gives procurement and operations teams a working toolkit to compare providers on what actually determines long-term success: recruitment, retention, management, security, and commercial transparency.

What you'll learn

  • The 45 questions to ask every vendor, covering recruitment, retention, management, security, and commercial terms, plus the evidence to request for each answer
  • How to score and compare up to three providers with a weighted framework that rewards demonstrated capability, not marketing claims
  • How to build SLAs that hold up, with metric definitions for time to hire, retention, attrition, and incident response, and targets you set with your vendor
  • How to make retention a contract requirement, using a retention-operations checklist and copy-and-paste RFP language

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The Challenge

A company-wide hiring freeze left the client’s project teams without enough in-house estimators to keep pace with a growing pipeline of construction and engineering bids. In an industry where precise cost estimating is the foundation of effective project budgeting and resource allocation, every delayed estimate risked a missed submission deadline — and a lost contract.

The Approach

Connext matched the client with independent contractors who specialized in construction cost estimating, then helped rebuild a structured, multi-step budgeting process from the ground up:

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