Dubai Outsource City (DOC) is a TECOM Group business district in Dubai, part of the free zone administered by the Dubai Development Authority (DDA) and dedicated to outsourcing and shared-service providers: call centres, transaction processing, IT support, document management and disaster-recovery data centres. The DOC licence is issued under a single segment, 17.1 Outsource, with eight activities, costs AED 15,000 a year and requires a minimum paid-up capital of AED 300,000 — thirty times the standard AED 10,000 that applies in most other DDA districts. The district was launched in 2004 as Dubai Outsource Zone; according to TECOM it hosts more than 80 customer companies from the aviation, banking and telecommunications industries.
