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Start with proven experience, not the size of the portfolio. Request a couple of engagements that sit close to your stack, and then find out which engineers actually built it. A solid partner is happy to connect you with the engineers. Answers that name nobody at this stage generally mean you are talking to a reseller.

The paperwork deserves a slower read than the pitch. Three clauses do most of the work: intellectual property assignment, the NDA, and exit terms and handover. Everything produced should transfer to you on payment, including source code, designs and infrastructure as code. Look closely at any clause that leaves framework code in house vs outsourced development team the vendor's hands, since this is frequently the part you cannot replace later.

Find out how the estimate was built. A serious estimate comes with a written set of assumptions, a breakdown per feature and a range rather than a single number. A fixed-price contract is only reasonable when the specification is complete; otherwise the provider adds a risk premium and you pay for it anyway. Time and materials moves the risk back to the client, so it demands visible weekly reporting and a spending cap.

The delivery process matters as much as team size. Find out what happens when the scope changes, who writes the acceptance criteria and how quality assurance works. A mature team should be able to show you a working build every one or hire ecommerce developers two weeks. Written acceptance criteria remain the only reliable protection against the it-was-never-in-scope conversation.

Finally, consider the day you no longer need this vendor at the start rather than at the end. Require that the repository sits on infrastructure you own from the first commit, and that documentation is written as you go rather than left to the end. A partner who is comfortable with this accepts it without argument; hesitation here reveals quite a lot.