Title
Declare ProjectDox Electronic Plan Review and Permitting as Sole Source (B)
This item involves a request for the City Commission to waive the competitive bid process and a request to authorize the Building Official to enter into contract negotiations with Avolve Software for the purchase of electronic plan review software.
Explanation
Electronic plan review is the next step in the streamlining of the permitting and plan review process. ProjectDox is currently the only self-hosted solution for electronic plan check and review for government entities. It is designed to handle permit project drawings from review, markup, and approval thru final inspection. Informative Graphics and Avolve Software is the sole maker of ProjectDox. They are also the sole maker of Brava, which is the viewer within ProjectDox. No other plan review software in the market has the tools and the capability to track all changes and re-submittals on one set of documents.
The City of Gainesville entered into a contract with Innoprise in 2008 to provide software for Planning, Code Enforcement, Building Inspections and GIS that will allow seamless coordinated tracking of our entire development process as well as an e-Gov solution for our citizens. ProjectDox works stand alone so it can be used with any permitting system. Avolve and Innoprise are presently working together so that data input in one will automatically update the other. ProjectDox can be used for site plan review and be shared by all of the City's Innoprise users.
The following jurisdictions in Florida are using ProjectDox for plan review and made their purchase through the sole source purchasing process: The City of Miami, Leon County, City of Palm Coast, City of Tallahassee, Lee County, City of West Palm Beach, and Osceola County. The Building Official has consulted on this matter with the Builders Association of North Central Florida (BANCF) and has received their support for this software application....
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