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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE19001004M?

$350K paid to 76 different vendors (the largest, Veritext Corp, received $79.4K) across 627 payments from August 10, 2018 to August 29, 2019, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

76 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $350K 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 76 vendors on this order.

Veritext Corp$79K · 125 payments
Atkinson-Baker Inc$39K · 82 payments
Huseby Inc$24K · 39 payments
US Legal Support, Inc.$23K · 38 payments
Speakwrite LLC$18K · 19 payments
Ben Hyatt Corporation$14K · 25 payments
Centext Legal Services LLC$11K · 29 payments
Jonnell Agnew$9K · 20 payments
Liticourt Corporation$8K · 14 payments
Hef Court Reporting, Inc.$4K · 8 payments
Aptus Court Reporting LLC$3K · 3 payments
J. Tony Rodriguez$3K · 2 payments
Robin L Aunchman$2K · 8 payments
Tom Sanders$2K · 5 payments
Dana D. Assad$2K · 4 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 627 payments totalling $350K, an average of $558. 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.