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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE22001004M?

$424K paid to 53 different vendors (the largest, Veritext LLC, received $87.8K) across 605 payments from September 28, 2021 to August 25, 2022, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

53 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $424K 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 TRANSCRIPTIONS

Approval records

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

Order dated July 8, 2021.

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 53 vendors on this order.

Veritext LLC$88K · 143 payments
Steno Agency Inc$74K · 116 payments
Speakwrite LLC$23K · 13 payments
TSG Reporting Inc$17K · 11 payments
M & C Corp$16K · 22 payments
US Legal Support, Inc.$15K · 24 payments
Huseby Inc$13K · 24 payments
Barkley Court Reporters Inc$10K · 14 payments
Kusar Legal Services, Inc.$8K · 15 payments
Hines Reporters.com Inc$8K · 16 payments
Magna Legal Services LLC$4K · 6 payments
Vicki a Saber$4K · 5 payments
Claudia Amezcua Hagopian$4K · 2 payments
Terri a Hourigan$4K · 1 payment
Dianne Jones & Associates$3K · 4 payments
Watson CSR Inc$3K · 3 payments
Karen I Sussman$2K · 3 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 605 payments totalling $424K, an average of $701. 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.