Accela, Inc.
Lobbying client
Accela is a government technology company founded in 1999 and based in San Ramon, California, that sells cloud-based software for permitting, licensing, and code enforcement to city, county, and state agencies. In New York City, Accela is registered as a citywide lobbying client and has filed 15 lobbying reports since 2024, working through Urban Strategies, LLC on government software procurement and licensing matters, while holding about $16 million in city contracts since 2013, none currently active.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 15
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $225,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Goods
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $16,010,467 awarded since 2013
- Paid to date
- $15,745,532
- Won without a fresh bid
- 99% of contract value · $15,915,267 · 4 contracts
- Based in
- San Ramon, CA (out of state)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Urban Strategies, LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Consumer Affairs City agency
- Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications City agency
- Department of Small Business Services City agency
Funded by these agencies
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Procurement - GOVERNMENT SOFTWARE
- Procurement - GOVERNMENT SOFTWARE LICENSING
- Procurement - government software
City contracts
Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).
- ACCELA ELA Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · CT185820131428068 · ended 2015 $7,804,278
- ACCELA ELA - 3 YR SOFTWARE MAINT - RENEWAL #2 Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · CT185820161424346 · ended 2019 $3,969,478
- ACCELA ELA extending end date Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · CT185820191427321 · ended 2021 $2,848,101
- Accela Maintenance Services --Renewal #1 Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · CT185820151423356 · ended 2016 $1,293,411
- MWBE ONLINE DIRECTORY SELF-SERVICE PORTAL Department of Small Business Services · CT180120141416276 · ended 2014 $76,200
- IT TRAINING ACCELA Department of Consumer Affairs · CT186620141411766 · ended 2014 $19,000
Largest payments, by purpose
The organization's largest individual city payments (roughly $25,000 and up), grouped by purpose, to show what recent money was for. This is NOT a total — smaller payments aren't listed; see “Paid to date” above for the complete amount paid against its contracts. Fiscal years 2020 and later.
- ACCELA ELA extending end date Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2021 $1,458,783
- ACCELA ELA - RENEWAL #3 SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2020 $1,389,317