Your vendor built the infrastructure and your team now operates it. Infrastructure is a running system, not a deliverable, so a contract that ends at handover moves the expensive half of the work without the knowledge. The three arrangements that do work, the six handover artifacts that transfer real capability, the rebuild test as an acceptance gate, and what an in-house engineer can push for from below.
How to Fix an Underperforming Offshore Dev Team in Six Weeks
You inherited an offshore dev team that misses everything while the status deck stays green. Four different causes look identical from the outside, and each has a different fix. The week-by-week turnaround playbook: the Week 0 tests that tell them apart, the metrics that beat the status report, and the go/no-go call in Week 6.