Electronic Plan Review Enhancements

During the pandemic, there has been an increase in electronic plans being submitted online and reviewed electronically. Currently, in ePermitting, customers can upload plans on ACA but the electronic plan review and mark up is happening outside Accela in either Bluebeam or Adobe Acrobat Pro. 

ePermitting is interested in providing some enhanced options:
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1. ePermitting has been pursuing purchasing a Bluebeam “connector” from Velosimo, that would allow you to open plans in Bluebeam directly from Accela and have concurrent reviews be visible to multiple reviewers. Unfortunately, due to procurement issues, we are on hold with that project for the time being.
2. Several ePermitting jurisdictions, including Jackson County, Talent and St. Helens are implementing DigEplan, a separate mark-up software, which can be readily  integrated with Accela so that plans can be opened directly through Accela, reviewers can perform and view concurrent reviews, and workflow can be used to track revision cycles (we have created a modified “model” workflow to use with DigEplan). DigEplan will likely be reaching out to jurisdictions to see if you are interested in a demo of this product. Individual jurisdictions are responsible for paying the annual licensing costs to use the software, but ePermitting will reimburse jurisdictions for the implementation costs.