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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE18001003M?

$167K paid to 50 different vendors (the largest, J. Tony Rodriguez, received $35.4K) across 264 payments from August 25, 2017 to October 22, 2018, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

50 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $167K 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

Litigation

Budget line.

Approval records

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

Paid from

General Fund

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

Department: City Attorney

Paid to

Showing the 25 largest of 50 vendors on this order.

J. Tony Rodriguez$35K · 29 payments
Centext Legal Services LLC$32K · 52 payments
US Legal Support, Inc.$20K · 27 payments
Huseby Inc$9K · 14 payments
Esrom Jayasinghe$7K · 9 payments
Atkinson-Baker Inc$7K · 15 payments
Lynden J & Associates Inc$5K · 15 payments
Elsa L Ormes$3K · 4 payments
Cvisual Evidence LLC$2K · 5 payments
Litigation-Tech LLC$2K · 1 payment
The Simon Law Group LLP$2K · 1 payment
R Leonard C S R Inc$2K · 2 payments
Veritext Corp$2K · 6 payments
Mary Jo Saul$2K · 3 payments
Karina Ruiz$1K · 3 payments
Excel Court Reporters$1K · 2 payments
Elite Court Reporting$984 · 1 payment
Kathryn a Fedor$863 · 2 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 264 payments totalling $167K, an average of $633. 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.