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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE18001012M?

$70K paid to 31 different vendors (the largest, Jams Inc, received $18.2K) across 204 payments from August 3, 2017 to September 21, 2018, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

31 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $70K 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 31 vendors on this order.

Jams Inc$18K · 1 payment
US Legal Support, Inc.$14K · 74 payments
Compex Legal Services Inc$4K · 34 payments
Brad Nayfack$4K · 4 payments
Becker Gallagher Legal$4K · 2 payments
Registrar-Recorder/County$4K · 14 payments
The MCS Group, Inc.$3K · 21 payments
Veritext Corp$3K · 6 payments
Snyder Heathcote Inc$2K · 5 payments
County of Santa Clara$940 · 1 payment
Esrom Jayasinghe$731 · 1 payment
Tom Sanders$656 · 1 payment
M & C Corp$570 · 2 payments
Atkinson-Baker Inc$516 · 2 payments
Advanced Discovery Inc$458 · 1 payment
Hines Reporters.com Inc$434 · 1 payment
Ace Attorney Service Inc.$156 · 2 payments
Aptus Court Reporting LLC$150 · 1 payment
Abc Legal Services Inc$129 · 2 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 204 payments totalling $70K, an average of $343. 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.