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title: Make SOW Capabilities a Major Decision Factor | Contrax VMS
description: SOW spend in many organizations dwarfs contract labor spend. The major VMS players lack the knowledge & capabilities to manage SOW spend effectively.
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28 July 2019

# Make SOW Capabilities a Major Decision Factor

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Statement of Work (SOW) spend in many organizations dwarfs contract labor spend. The major VMS players lack the knowledge & capabilities to manage SOW spend effectively. They will tell you they do but when I talk to my customers who have tried to use them they tell me the VMS/MSP players are missing the mark.

From a technology perspective few can handle true SOW transactions. These transactions can be complex with detailed and many deliverables/milestones and acceptance criteria. Scope changes further exasperate the traditional VMS/MSP providers.

If you have SOW spend in your organization make sure you add it to your service provider decision criteria with at least 50% weight factor (or more).

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