You should consider outsourcing when you have maybe a short-term need to address a backlog issue .For instance if there's a new legislative mandate that comes out that results in a great influx of cases and you know that it's only a short- term kind of thing, it's maybe a thousand cases come in that you don't expect then outsourcing might be something to consider in that instance; by the time you were able to hire and train qualified analysts you could have those cases worked by the outsourcing lab and address them that way. The reasons that you would not want to outsource is if you don't have the money to do it it is expensive outsourcing does put a burden on the laboratories; often the case will originally come to the lab there'll be some processing that has to be done some tracking within the lab maybe they will need to screen the evidence to find the biological material to outsource for DNA, and there that involves analyst time involves commodities and facilities tracking, then it's sent out for analysis again tracking, it costs money, and then when it comes back there's more tracking to be done and if there's any follow-up if if that DNA profile has to be uploaded to CODIS the the laboratory analyst will have to review the data and then upload that into CODIS.
