What is your time-frame?

What skills are needed?

Hiring directly
- How can you evaluate applicants if you don't have skills?
- Where do you find an applicant pool?
- Does your institution have a computer science department?
- Do you need skilled or unskilled workers, coders or data input, testers, etc.?
Working with a company
- Where do you find and evaluate a company?
  - Getting recommendations
  - Evaluating existing work
  - Evaluating pricing and availability
Are there institutional resources available?
- How capable and available are your:
  - IT staff
  - Library staff
  - DH program staff
Do you have to do competitive bidding?