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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE18001006M?

$1.50M paid to 83 different vendors (the largest, Courtroom Presentations Inc, received $227.1K) across 604 payments from July 5, 2017 to September 20, 2018, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

83 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $1.5M 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 83 vendors on this order.

Courtroom Presentations Inc$227K · 40 payments
Adjudicate, Inc.$163K · 95 payments
Jams Inc$107K · 25 payments
Litili, LLC$82K · 22 payments
Adr Services Inc$78K · 45 payments
VWM Analytics, LLC$70K · 18 payments
Decision Analysis Inc$43K · 7 payments
Stephen Blewett & Associates$38K · 19 payments
Semper Scientific Inc$38K · 25 payments
Rock E Miller$26K · 8 payments
Cac Services Group LLC$26K · 2 payments
Forensisgroup, Inc.$25K · 2 payments
Exponent Inc$24K · 10 payments
Richard T Copeland$21K · 27 payments
Richard C Rosenberg MD Inc$21K · 12 payments
Douglas J Schiffer$17K · 18 payments
Laura Denison Knight$14K · 2 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 604 payments totalling $1.5M, an average of $2,479. 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.