Real Property Valuation Software and Consulting Services

The Vendor is required to provide real property valuation software and consulting services for include:
- Common functions
•    System should be capable of valuing residential, commercial, industrial, and special use properties as well as vacant land. 
•    Utilize a RDMS utilizing a GUI front end. 
•    Be able to export data from CAMA system to the jurisdiction's tax collection system maintain audit trail of all user changes to information on the parcel level. 
•    Allow for an audit trail to be viewable from within a given parcel. 
•    Provide the ability to navigate between screens via a single click. 
•    Provide the ability to copy all data from one parcel to another. 
•    Be able to assign a parcel as active, inactive, or as future and have the ability to view all the property data in either mode. 
•    Provide the ability to make global data changes using a user-friendly interface. 
•    Support multiple parcel search capabilities. 
•    Be able to search by secondary addresses captured in the database. 
•    Be able to search by grantor, grantee or future owner.
•    Allow parcel searches that create subsets of parcels. 
•    Provide a table that allows a user to view and access parcels in the subset. 
•    Be able to search parcels utilizing cross streets look up tables. 
•    Searching by street name the system will auto fill the street name based on the letters the user types in. 
•    Provide the ability to add, change, and update all fields which appear online. 
•    Provide a system that is table driven (e.g., user defined edits) and provide a comprehensive facility with on-line screens to maintain reference data.
•    Allow field labels to edited, enabled or disabled by the user. 
•    Allow user to define data field properties including- data type, allowable table and whether the field is optional or required. 
•    Provide flexibility to adapt to changing legislation. 
•    Provide security at the screen and transaction level. 
•    Capture transaction history (e.g., transaction name, user id, date, and time) and change information (e.g., before and after data and values) for all adds, changes, and deletes. 
•    Provide access to transaction information. 
•    Be able to track owner information utilizing separate fields for first, middle, last and suffix entries. 
•    Provide access to a help desk for user inquiries during normal business hours. 
•    Allow property to be marked as fully or partially tax exempt.
- System requirements
•    System must utilize SQL server
•    CAMA calculations are not implemented in stored procedures system integrates with SQL reporting services ability to compose new user interface from parts of existing user interface components ADHOC report tool does not require SQL knowledge ability to define application names or labels for all forms and columns ADHOC report tool supports application names in addition to database column names
- Parcel record maintenance
•    Maintain legal description of property. 
•    Support large field size to fully capture a lengthy legal description.
•    Provide the ability to attach scanned or electronically created materials to individual records. 
•    Allow for multiple or mixed-use codes on single parcels. 
•    Multi-use parcels will also, at a minimum, capture percent of residential use.
•    Ability to view multiyear data for any given
- Basic appraisal functions
•    Support unlimited land and building valuation algorithms.
•    Allow on-line update and printing of property record cards and work documents.
•    Support on-line mass appraisal to assess multiple properties at the same time - by neighborhood, model type, zoning, a user-specified list of parcels, or by property type and class. Support separate valuation methods for each class of real property. 
•    Maintain a historical record of the original assessment values, revised assessment values, and date of change. 
•    Allow properties to be valued and revalued using different methods during each year. 
•    Track each change.
•    Provide for the appraisal of special purpose property classes including the valuation of low- or moderate-income housing and tax exempt or abated properties.
- Sketching
•    The system will provide the ability to create new sketches, modify, add, change, or delete sketches with automatic computation of the square foot of building area. 
•    The sketch package must provide closure problem detection and correction features.
•    Support flexible on-line sketching software, which displays story height descriptions, an identifier for each section (e.g. Porch, deck), and exterior wall dimensions for all sections of a building. 
•    Support rounded surfaces, angles, and irregularly shaped areas as well as square footage entries. 
•    Sketch program should also work with hand-held and pen-based field data devices, including download and upload capability. 
•    Compute total livable floor area on property from living area dimensions. 
•    Record detailed physical characteristics for a property, with the ability to describe and sketch each building on a property separately, including detached structures such as garages and sheds and the labeling of these structures. 
•    Provide the ability to copy sketches from one parcel to another as well as use sketches that are stored in a sketch library. 
•    Sketching software should be mouse driven. 
•    The sketch data should export into various image formats. 
•    Display and show all angles as you are drawing a section be able to split a polygon and detach sections to name separately be able to pull out a section of an existing polygon without having to redraw a section flip an entire sketch horizontally or vertically have built-in tools for drawing an octagon or trapezoid.