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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE19001022M?

$315K paid to 24 different vendors (the largest, West Publishing Corporation, received $130.8K) across 170 payments from August 1, 2018 to August 8, 2019, charged to City Attorney / Office and Administrative.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

24 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $315K 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.

Order description, as published:

PRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY

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

West Publishing Corporation$131K · 36 payments
Matthew Bender & Co Inc$77K · 26 payments
Daily Journal Corp$39K · 2 payments
First American Data Tree LLC$21K · 12 payments
Pacer Service Center$9K · 5 payments
BLUE360 Media LLC$7K · 1 payment
Courthouse News Service$4K · 1 payment
Lri History LLC$4K · 9 payments
Reed Elsevier Inc$3K · 6 payments
CCH Inc$1K · 3 payments
Legalpub.com Inc$1K · 1 payment
The Wall Street Journal$591 · 1 payment
Alm Media LLC$589 · 1 payment
Thomson Reuters$571 · 3 payments
Grace Communications Inc$285 · 1 payment
Civic Research Institute$180 · 1 payment
CBJ Associates Inc$130 · 1 payment
Privacy-City Attorney$69 · 1 payment

Payment volume

This order carries 170 payments totalling $315K, an average of $1,855. 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.