SpendingContractsPurchase order
What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE18001022M?
$342K paid to 24 different vendors (the largest, West Publishing Corporation, received $145.8K) across 162 payments from August 2, 2017 to August 10, 2018, charged to City Attorney / Office and Administrative.
24 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $342K 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
Office and Administrative
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
Payment volume
This order carries 162 payments totalling $342K, an average of $2,110. 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.