THE FACTORS AFFECTING LATVIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION DECISION TO OUTSOURCE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FUNCTION

Outsourcing has been widely discussed in the context of advantages and disadvantages, potential risks and problems, but very little discussed about the factors that determine public administration decision to outsource. Outsourcing now is widespread, but the main question still existed: how can we identified activities or services that must not be contracted out? More and more public administration is questioning whether is necessary to provide all services by themselves or it is possible to guarantee high quality and cost-effective results with contracting out. This article reviews how general, public administration-specific and information technology-specific factors influence decision to outsource. All these factors separately and jointly influence public administration decision to outsource information technology function. Examining these factors therefore helps in understanding the outsourcing decision-making process. The aim of this article is to find factor that can be used in decision making process about public administration function outsourcing in the field of information technologies. Unified comparative factors allow make the decision, taking into account short term and long term goals.