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DBI director to keep permit-tracking system and do business-process review in-house; outside RFP for BPR rejected
Summary
Director Esong Hassan told commissioners he will evaluate whether the existing PTS permit-tracking system can be salvaged and recommended conducting business-process reengineering in-house rather than issuing a costly RFP; he cited a prior $2,000,000 bid and warned modernization can become a multiyear, multimillion-dollar effort.
At his first regular meeting as director, Esong Hassan told the Building Inspection Commission that he is reviewing the department’s MIS needs and will decide within about 4–6 weeks whether to salvage and expand the current PTS permit-tracking system or replace it.
Hassan described three distinct components under review: the PTS system itself, an addressing-system project, and a business-process reengineering (BPR) effort. On BPR he said he will not pursue an outside RFP at…
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