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DBI pauses permit-tracking RFP, works with DTIS to cut costs and speed rollout
Summary
The Building Inspection Commission heard that DBI will rewrite its permit-tracking RFP and partner with the city's DTIS unit to avoid costly, long vendor proposals; officials cited an original street-address mapping (SAMs) budget of about $800,000 versus vendor bids above $2 million and said a reissued RFP could go out in February.
The Building Inspection Commission on Jan. 8 2007 heard that the Department of Building Inspection (DBI) is rewriting its permit-tracking request for proposals and collaborating with the Department of Technology and Information Services (DTIS) to reduce cost and delivery time.
DBI's director told commissioners the department has deployed nearly 200 new desktop computers and flat screens and has the application-version upgrade about 40% complete, but work on permit-tracking stalled after vendor bids proved much higher than anticipated. "Several times the cost came out extremely high; our initial budget for SAMs…
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