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Dallas council approves $1.54M renewal for electronic plan-review software amid broader push to integrate Accela permitting
Summary
Council approved a three-year cooperative purchase to continue the ProjectDocs plan-review SaaS used by Development Services and voted to keep advancing Accela as the city’s new land management system. Council members pressed staff about AI, integration timelines and recurring subscription costs.
The Dallas City Council on Jan. 8 authorized a three-year cooperative purchasing agreement for the ProjectDocs plan-review software — a subscription renewal not to exceed $1,536,554 — while discussing the city’s broader effort to modernize permitting by integrating ProjectDocs with the Accela land-management platform set to launch in summer 2025.
Council Member Paula Blackman pulled the item (agenda item 16) for questions about earlier software “bugs” and implementation; staff said the bugs were resolved after migrating ProjectDocs to the cloud and described the current purchase as a subscription renewal that will maintain the platform while Accela is stood up. Deputy Director Vernon Young, Planning & Development, said ProjectDocs is the plan-markup tool staff…
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