SpendingContractsPurchase order

What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE06AE20000001M?

$584K paid to 38 different vendors (the largest, Best Friends Animal Society, received $87.0K) across 273 payments from July 30, 2019 to November 9, 2021, charged to Animal Services / Spay & Neuter Program.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

38 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $584K 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

Spay & Neuter Program

Budget line.

Approval records

No council file, contract number or payment authority appears in this order's checkbook records.

Paid from

Animal Sterilization

restricted revenue (grants, fees or a dedicated tax) that can only be spent on this purpose — not general-fund tax dollars.

Department: Animal Services

Paid to

Showing the 25 largest of 38 vendors on this order.

Best Friends Animal Society$87K · 10 payments
Family Veterinary, Inc$57K · 9 payments
CH Veterinary, Inc$57K · 11 payments
Ahmed a Khalek$44K · 13 payments
Value Vet Inc$29K · 12 payments
KINDER4RESCUE$28K · 10 payments
Sis Inc$27K · 12 payments
Barlin Inc$25K · 9 payments
Fixnation Inc$23K · 12 payments
Holiday Humane Society /C$15K · 1 payment
Gurmani Veterinary, LLC$11K · 12 payments
Vca Animal Hospitals, Inc.$8K · 10 payments
Steve Haerther DVM Inc$8K · 8 payments
Animal Hospital LA Inc$5K · 4 payments
Marco Pet Care Inc$3K · 7 payments
Veterinary Angels Inc$3K · 8 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 273 payments totalling $584K, an average of $2,138. At that volume it is a standing arrangement drawn down continuously rather than a sequence of milestones, so individual payments are not listed.

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.