Sweent Selected by the City of Daytona Beach to Build Its Interactive Citizen Engagement Platform

Sweent LLC has been selected by the City of Daytona Beach as prime contractor for RFP 2624 — Interactive Digital Platform, a citizen engagement mobile application for residents and visitors of Daytona Beach. The award was issued through the City's OpenGov procurement portal on May 11, 2026, following a competitive solicitation and a finalist interview round in March.

For Sweent — a Daytona Beach–headquartered, service-disabled veteran-owned small business — this is a hometown project. The platform we are building puts city services, events, parks, notifications, and the city's cultural heritage into a single app that residents can carry in their pocket.

What we were asked to build

The City's requirement was direct: one application, delivered on iOS and Android, that consolidates fragmented digital touchpoints into a single branded experience — and that City staff can run themselves after handoff, without a developer in the loop for routine content updates.

The scope Sweent proposed and was awarded includes:

A cross-platform mobile app for iOS and Android, plus a companion web build

• A content management and marketing platform for City staff — events, parks, points of interest, quick actions, highlights, and trail content

• A multi-channel notification system — push, SMS, and email — with per-resident subscription preferences

• An interactive map of city locations backed by a unified GIS dataset

• The Black Heritage Trail experience: a guided, self-paced tour of historic sites in Midtown Daytona Beach, delivered as the platform's flagship content module

• WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility across the entire application

The technology behind it

We proposed a stack chosen for speed of delivery, low long-term cost of ownership, and the City's ability to own it outright:

Mobile — React Native + Expo. A single TypeScript codebase compiles to native iOS and Android builds and a web build via React Native Web. Builds, store submissions, and over-the-air updates run through EAS (Expo Application Services), which means the City can ship a content or bug fix to residents' phones without waiting on an app store review cycle.

Backend — Supabase. Postgres with row-level security as the authorization boundary, Supabase Auth for resident accounts, private Storage buckets with time-limited signed URLs for media, and Deno Edge Functions as the API layer between the app and the database. No servers to patch, no infrastructure for the City to staff.

Notifications — Expo Push, Twilio, and Resend. Push notifications via APNs and FCM, SMS through Twilio on a compliant A2P 10DLC registered messaging path, and transactional email — all composed from one screen in the admin platform and dispatched through a queued, retry-safe worker.

Mapping and GIS. Native map rendering on each platform, with pins and area overlays driven from a unified location dataset in Postgres rather than hardcoded in the app.

Why the City selected Sweent

Sweent submitted its proposal on February 17, 2026, advanced to the finalist round on March 18, 2026, and was awarded on May 11, 2026. The engagement is a firm-fixed-price contract with a fixed delivery window measured from the City's Notice to Proceed — an aggressive schedule driven by a grant deadline.

We are executing it with Skvare LLC as our backend and platform subcontractor. More on that partnership in a follow-up post.

What's next

Work begins at the City's Notice to Proceed. We will publish updates as the platform moves through kickoff, core build, the AI and notification milestone, and final handoff to the City.

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Sweent LLC is a Daytona Beach, Florida–based software and digital services firm and an SBA-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and HUBZone contractor. Sweent holds GSA MAS contract 47QRAA25D0024 and the Florida State Term Contract for IT staff augmentation (80101507-23-STC-ITSA). To discuss a project, contact us at jtejera@sweent.com.