DBI moves ahead on permit-tracking RFP and delays address-change bulletin for more implementation work

The San Francisco Building Inspection Commission on Nov. 17 heard updates on a draft request for proposals (RFP) for a new permit-tracking system and agreed to continue consideration of Administrative Bulletin AB035 on street-number assignments until staff address implementation and staffing concerns.

Pamela Levin, Deputy Director for Administrative Services, told the commission that DBI completed a draft RFP in mid‑October and has circulated it to internal reviewers including purchasing (OCA), the city attorney, the Human Rights Commission and the joint coordinating committee. She said the department hopes to issue the RFP in December and give respondents about six weeks to reply. "We're hoping, depending, of course, on people's

—the people that we're counting on to help us do the final reviews, hoping to issue this by the December," Levin said.

Levin described…