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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE20001010M?

$1.14M paid to 61 different vendors (the largest, Richard C Rosenberg MD Inc, received $174.5K) across 356 payments from July 29, 2019 to September 23, 2020, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

61 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $1.1M 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:

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

Showing the 25 largest of 61 vendors on this order.

Richard C Rosenberg MD Inc$175K · 70 payments
Ronald S. Kvitne, M.D.$106K · 34 payments
George K Henry$76K · 10 payments
Litili, LLC$60K · 10 payments
Agsc Consulting Inc.$49K · 6 payments
Martin Cooper MD$44K · 5 payments
Quality Life Care Plans Inc$34K · 14 payments
Barry D Pressman MD Inc$34K · 7 payments
James R High M.D.$24K · 5 payments
Ted D Evans$22K · 4 payments
Barry I Ludwig MD Inc$21K · 14 payments
Jeffrey M Lulow PHD Apc$18K · 7 payments
Jeffrey I Korchek$18K · 10 payments
Nachman Brautbar MD Inc$13K · 4 payments
BPP Medical Services Inc$13K · 2 payments
Tye J Ouzounian$13K · 5 payments
Exam - Docs$12K · 1 payment
Gary Vilke MD$12K · 3 payments
Christine Kohler-Ekstrand$11K · 4 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 356 payments totalling $1.1M, an average of $3,214. 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.