SpendingContractsPurchase order
What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE21001010M?
$800K paid to 55 different vendors (the largest, Sperling Medical Corporation, received $93.6K) across 276 payments from August 31, 2020 to September 13, 2021, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.
55 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $800K 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 55 vendors on this order.
Payment volume
This order carries 276 payments totalling $800K, an average of $2,899. 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.