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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE19001006M?

$1.63M paid to 103 different vendors (the largest, Courtroom Presentations Inc, received $194.0K) across 618 payments from August 14, 2018 to September 19, 2019, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

103 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $1.6M 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.

Order description, as published:

VARIOUS EXPERT WITNESS

Approval records

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

Order dated August 7, 2018.

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 103 vendors on this order.

Courtroom Presentations Inc$194K · 28 payments
VWM Analytics, LLC$145K · 30 payments
Adjudicate, Inc.$130K · 74 payments
Adr Services Inc$87K · 48 payments
Decision Analysis Inc$80K · 7 payments
Jams Inc$66K · 18 payments
Edward Thomas Flosi$57K · 31 payments
Semper Scientific Inc$49K · 54 payments
Ellen a. Pansky$46K · 6 payments
Thomas M/Cathryn L Neches$29K · 3 payments
Richard T Copeland$24K · 25 payments
Kevin V Keegan$24K · 1 payment
Cac Services Group LLC$23K · 2 payments
Agsc Consulting Inc.$21K · 2 payments
Katapodis Consulting, LLC$20K · 11 payments
Alexander Jason$20K · 1 payment
Merati Economic Group Inc$18K · 5 payments
Guy Prihar$18K · 2 payments
Galina V Nikolskaya$17K · 2 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 618 payments totalling $1.6M, an average of $2,636. 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.