When a host organization is reviewing a potential outsourcing contract involving a VLITP, few issues of potential problems should be investigated. The first issue of contention is usually making sure the organization (and not the outsourcing vendor) will end up owning the source code of any IT application resulting from the VLITP (Johnson, 1995). The contract must be flexible enough that the service being outsourced can change as the business changes (Mahnke et al, 2008). The project champion should be able to answer these simple questions:
Is there a system set up to gauge the success of this VLITP?
Is there a clearly defined—preferably one—person established as the liaison and can that person speak the language where the work is being done?