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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE21001004M?

$225K paid to 52 different vendors (the largest, Atkinson-Baker Inc, received $39.1K) across 408 payments from July 23, 2020 to September 13, 2021, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

52 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $225K 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.

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 52 vendors on this order.

Atkinson-Baker Inc$39K · 83 payments
Steno Agency Inc$36K · 51 payments
Veritext Corp$32K · 55 payments
Veritext LLC$17K · 29 payments
US Legal Support, Inc.$11K · 19 payments
Speakwrite LLC$7K · 9 payments
Huseby Inc$6K · 11 payments
Kusar Legal Services, Inc.$5K · 15 payments
M & C Corp$4K · 8 payments
Janet a Hirsch$3K · 9 payments
Hines Reporters.com Inc$3K · 5 payments
Regal Court Reporting Inc$3K · 8 payments
Liticourt Corporation$2K · 10 payments
Aptus Court Reporting LLC$2K · 2 payments
Hillary D Meyer$1K · 4 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 408 payments totalling $225K, an average of $551. 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.