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What has the City paid on purchase order BPO40200000227887?

$954 paid to 2 different vendors (the largest, Aramsco, Inc., received $789.2) across 4 payments from June 24, 2020 to November 17, 2020, charged to General Services / Operating Supplies.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

2 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $954 above is the whole order, not the spend of whichever vendor you arrived from. The City uses these for standing arrangements like outside counsel, library materials and expert witnesses. Per-vendor amounts are below.

What it was for

Operating Supplies

Budget line.

Order description, as published:

QUOTE 1175095

Approval records

  • BAX1401Authority code on the payments (BAX1401).

Order dated May 22, 2020.

Paid from

General Fund

discretionary tax dollars — this competes with police, fire, parks and everything else.

Department: General Services

Paid to

Aramsco, Inc.$789 · 2 payments
Empire Cleaning Supply$165 · 2 payments

Every payment, in order

Payment requests are numbered sequentially by the City, so the order here is the order they were approved. Several requests clearing on one day usually means invoices were held and released together.

#PaidInvoicedLagReferenceAmount
1June 24, 2020June 12, 202012d603237 VINYL PF PROF LRG$110
2June 24, 2020June 12, 202012d603238 GLOVES VINYL PF PROF MEDIUM$55
3November 9, 2020October 14, 202026dGOJ9605 24 CASE HAND SANITIZER$733
4November 17, 2020October 21, 202027dGOJ9605 24 CASE HAND SANITIZER$56

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Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), read live and grouped by po_num, which is populated on about 90% of payments. Council files link to the City Clerk's Council File Management System. The City's biggest contracts · The checkbook.