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City of Los Angeles — Bureau of Contract Administration

City of Los Angeles: clear public guidance. Fewer publishing delays

A contractor needs an inspection. A small business needs certification. A worker needs wage information. Los Angeles’s Bureau of Contract Administration uses Drupal and DXPR to present these services clearly.
Downtown Los Angeles skyline
Los Angeles, California.
Sector
Locatie
United States
Platform
Drupal · DXPR Builder

The outcome:
service updates
closer to the people who need them.

Give service teams control over everyday page updates. Clear instructions, current forms and visible next steps help the public act on the information.

4×

Faster service-page updates.

Prepare revised forms, requirements and instructions in an hour instead of half a day.

Illustrative estimate.

80%

Less developer time on routine pages.

Move everyday layout changes to service owners, freeing technical capacity for the platform.

Illustrative estimate.

2×

Capacity to keep guidance current.

Use the same publishing time to maintain more certification, inspection and wage-information pages.

Illustrative estimate.

An outdated instruction creates work on both sides.

The wrong form can turn a simple request into another phone call.

The bureau’s website serves contractors, business owners and workers with very different questions. A certification page needs eligibility details; an inspection page needs a request route; wage guidance needs clear supporting documents.

These are everyday service responsibilities. If changing the order of instructions or highlighting a replacement form requires developer time, even a small improvement has to compete with larger technical projects.

The service team knows what changed. Give it a direct way to explain it.

Let service owners
maintain the next step.

DXPR makes the presentation of a service page editable inside Drupal. Staff can group the requirements, place the relevant document beside them and make the application or contact link easy to see.

A repeatable service-page layout gives the next update a starting point. Reviewers still check the guidance, while the web team can focus on the platform instead of assembling each revised page.

Bureau pages show the different tasks its public information needs to support.

City of Los Angeles — Bureau of Contract Administration: public services webpage

City of Los Angeles — Bureau of Contract Administration: certification webpage

City of Los Angeles — Bureau of Contract Administration: wage standards webpage

A clear page helps someone take the next step. A simpler publishing process helps the bureau keep that step correct.

Make public-service updates easier to publish.

Bring a service page that is difficult to maintain. We will show how its content owners could manage the layout in Drupal.