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Resolution Approving a Contract in the amount of $500,000.00 for the Custom Development and Implementation of a New Plan Review Software System for Electronic Plan Submittal and Review
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Department: Information Technology
Council District: n/a
Public Hearing: n/a
Advertising Date/By: n/a
Contact 1 and Phone: Jane Nickles, IT, 2314
Contact 2 and Phone: Aimee Walker, IT, 2016
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this contract is to engage a software developer to create a new Plan Review custom software suite to provide numerous benefits for the application users, the City of Greensboro, and the developers, engineers, and architects in the Greensboro region. For the application users this includes providing a cohesive and seamless experience; providing new features and functionality, and generating efficiency increases for the user workflows. From a technology standpoint, this includes bringing the code to a supported platform with a maintainable code base and ensuring the underlying server system is on the latest operating system with the latest security patches.
BACKGROUND:
The first four (4) modules of the Plan Review system were developed and introduced to the City of Greensboro on contract around the year 2000. As the years passed, staff added additional modules to grow it into the twelve (12) separate systems that make up the Plan Review software suite today. The primary users of this system include City departments such as Planning, Engineering and Inspections, Water Resources and Fire as well as engineers and architects in the Greensboro area. Yearly, the Plan Review system processes around 4000 plans and generates an estimated $250,000 in revenue according to 2016 data.
Over the last seventeen (17) years, as individual Plan Review modules were developed by staff, the system grew in many different pieces rather than as one complete system. Additionally, each piece of software was not maintained from an upgrade or integration standpoint. This was p...
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