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The $4.1 million contract includes research, site design, content management system development, configuration and maintenance over three years, with two optional one-year renewals.
“The new Houston Permitting Center site will allow customers to answer a series of questions online to quickly navigate the permitting process,” Woolpert said in a statement. “It also will provide comprehensive customer support.”
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“We’re revamping the front end of the process for citizens who need to file permits,” Roy Interrante, Woolpert project manager, said in the company’s statement. “They will no longer have to weed through dozens of paper permits, as is the case in many cities, to try to figure out what they need.”
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Interrante added that this technology has been implemented for permitting systems at the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and Miami-Dade County.
“We’re excited to move forward with this project and pleased to be able to support Houston,” Woolpert CEO Scott Cattran said.
The project was approved by the Houston City Council last week. Initial work is underway, Woolpert said.
Beavercreek-based Woolpert has 213 employees at its County Line Road headquarters and 609 total at 24 offices across the country.
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