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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE20001006M?

$1.70M paid to 87 different vendors (the largest, Adjudicate, Inc., received $170.7K) across 681 payments from July 17, 2019 to September 23, 2020, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

87 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $1.7M 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 (SEE EXTENDED DESCRIPTION)

Approval records

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

Order dated July 5, 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 87 vendors on this order.

Adjudicate, Inc.$171K · 82 payments
Ellen a. Pansky$134K · 5 payments
Semper Scientific Inc$105K · 105 payments
Edward Thomas Flosi$87K · 48 payments
VWM Analytics, LLC$81K · 22 payments
Decision Analysis Inc$76K · 8 payments
Adr Services Inc$63K · 32 payments
Jams Inc$56K · 13 payments
Merati Economic Group Inc$49K · 9 payments
Litili, LLC$49K · 7 payments
Austin L Bean$41K · 1 payment
Exponent Inc$40K · 22 payments
Stephen Bradford Ijames$31K · 3 payments
Signature Resolution, LLC$28K · 7 payments
Lightpoint Scientific LLC$24K · 4 payments
Steve Molina$22K · 6 payments
Courtroom Presentations Inc$20K · 5 payments
Ronald S. Kvitne, M.D.$18K · 2 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 681 payments totalling $1.7M, an average of $2,495. 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.