Who will win the $125 million outsourcing deal from Dutch insurance and banking giant ING? NIIT has already given up and withdrawn its name from the race since the deal involves taking on board approximately 1,000 people from ING. It seems 4,450 head strong NIIT dared to take on the challenge. So, the big question now will India's local majors like TCS, Satyam or Infosys be able to successfully pitch against European biggies like Capgemini. Remember, LogicaCMG and Atos Origin? Its worth remembering that LogicaCMG only last year has signed a 200 million Euro deal with ING. In Europe again, ING is already outsourcing to Capgemini.
Capgemini by taking this step of outsourcing it seems, does not want any bad press either. So it agrees by the condition absorbing 1,000 in-house employees. 
Understood, why NIIT pulls itself out from the race. I dont know for how many years the deal will be signed for, but one thing is sure, these 1000 employees will be given training on all the natty-gritty of the processes and you never know they may go back to their parent company leaving the outsourcing company in lurch.
My question is, where is the return of investment assurance from this 1000 employees on a longer basis? The pitching comapanies should add training costs in their RFPs.
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