Council axes software as Urpla goes belly up

Logan City Council has axed its latest development application assistance software following the developer’s voluntary administration.

Gold Coast-based Urpla was awarded a council contract worth $206,363.64 on 30 June last year to help improve council’s development application process.

But on Wednesday 23 May, Urpla went into voluntary administration.

In an email sent to council staff and obtained by MyCity Logan, the organisation’s development assessement manager said the Logan Assessment Portal (LAP) had been suspended until further notice from use due to the “absence of technical support from Urpla”.

“Practical steps are underway way to support both our customers and our staff which include the removal of existing applications from LAP, which will now be assessed via standard council processess,” the email said.

An in-house information session to showcase the software on 21 July has been cancelled.

A council spokesperson confirmed the Urpla software was no longer in use, and said there was no replacement software.

“There has been no change to service levels as council continues to provide development assessment services without the Urpla platform,” the spokesperson said.

The spokesperson refused to say…

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