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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE20001004M?

$248K paid to 52 different vendors (the largest, Veritext Corp, received $70.0K) across 403 payments from August 8, 2019 to July 1, 2020, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

52 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $248K 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 TRANSCRIPTIONS

Approval records

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

Order dated August 2, 2019.

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 52 vendors on this order.

Veritext Corp$70K · 125 payments
Atkinson-Baker Inc$32K · 64 payments
Speakwrite LLC$20K · 18 payments
Huseby Inc$15K · 27 payments
Hines Reporters.com Inc$11K · 19 payments
US Legal Support, Inc.$10K · 17 payments
Kusar Legal Services, Inc.$7K · 18 payments
Rocket Reporters Ca LLC$6K · 7 payments
Magdalene Sophia Puente$4K · 5 payments
M & C Corp$3K · 4 payments
Mona Garcia$2K · 4 payments
Tom Sanders$2K · 4 payments
Advanced Depositions LLC$2K · 1 payment
Marea Woolrich$2K · 1 payment
Mary Jo Saul$1K · 4 payments
Apex Court Reporters Inc$1K · 1 payment
Rachel L. Quinones$1K · 1 payment

Payment volume

This order carries 403 payments totalling $248K, an average of $615. 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.