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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE21001006M?

$1.19M paid to 67 different vendors (the largest, Adjudicate, Inc., received $148.3K) across 569 payments from July 17, 2020 to August 3, 2021, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

67 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $1.2M 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 13, 2020.

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 67 vendors on this order.

Adjudicate, Inc.$148K · 70 payments
Ellis & Makus LLP$93K · 8 payments
Semper Scientific Inc$80K · 58 payments
Adr Services Inc$57K · 31 payments
Exponent Inc$46K · 15 payments
Remy Moose Manley LLP$46K · 4 payments
Edward Thomas Flosi$39K · 25 payments
Jams Inc$34K · 10 payments
Lightpoint Scientific LLC$32K · 9 payments
Justitia Consulting Inc$32K · 21 payments
Signature Resolution, LLC$32K · 10 payments
J. S. Held LLC$25K · 9 payments
David M Tristan$24K · 6 payments
Rock E Miller$23K · 10 payments
Decision Analysis Inc$23K · 8 payments
Richard T Copeland$20K · 19 payments
GTD Scientific Inc$20K · 2 payments
Iso Services Inc$18K · 11 payments
Cac Services Group LLC$16K · 3 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 569 payments totalling $1.2M, an average of $2,084. 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.