Third, the outside supplier provides a check on the costs of the in-house operation.
Should Alliance disband its in-house operation and just hire a cheaper external manager?
Even where markets are initially competitive, they may not be cheaper than a smart in-house operation.
Elias agreed, deciding Fusion GPS had more capacity than the campaign's in-house operation to do sophisticated research, according to the Perkins Coie spokesperson.
In part, this is because it can take a lot of time and money to build a successful in-house operation, but Ms. Zander has no interest in doing anything of the sort.
"We have naturally thought long and hard about starting our own in-house operation but it's clear that the timing of this is not right," said John Myers, the chief executive of GMG Radio.
The Eno Center for Transportation, which has conducted research on best practices in transit management, is working with the city to assess the potential in-house operation of the system, DDOT said.
In 2001, the Defense Department set up a small in-house operation called the Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group, whose purpose, according to its creators, was not, as its critics have charged, to cherry-pick raw intelligence in order to justify the invasion of Iraq but to connect the dots between terrorist groups and countries that harbored them.
Unlike the Obama campaign, which uses a large outside time-buying firm with about two dozen people working on the account, the Romney campaign, in an effort to save money, buys time with what is effectively an in-house operation that has at times seemed to rest on the shoulders of a single deputy, several people who have dealt with it say.
Trident, a Midlands housing association that represents tenants in parts of Birmingham, the Black Country, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and South Derbyshire, is another customer from the KPMG deal that will not be using Morgan Sindall, after setting up an in-house operation to carry out Connaught's work.
The winning designs are produced by Lookk own in-house operation with Lookk responsible for the the manufacturing, distribution and disbursement of the pieces, including all associated costs.
