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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE22001010M?

$1.20M paid to 65 different vendors (the largest, Sperling Medical Corporation, received $142.4K) across 338 payments from July 29, 2021 to October 28, 2022, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

65 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.

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 65 vendors on this order.

Sperling Medical Corporation$142K · 17 payments
Mlxperts LLC$125K · 33 payments
Univ Sports Med & Ortho Surgry$113K · 46 payments
Richard C Rosenberg MD Inc$94K · 49 payments
George K Henry$82K · 8 payments
Quality Life Care Plans Inc$66K · 16 payments
James R High M.D.$39K · 5 payments
Litili, LLC$38K · 7 payments
Barry I Ludwig MD Inc$28K · 20 payments
Barry D Pressman MD Inc$27K · 5 payments
Agsc Consulting Inc.$26K · 3 payments
Nachman Brautbar MD Inc$25K · 3 payments
Gregory Heinen MD Inc$21K · 9 payments
Mechel M Henry MD Inc$20K · 1 payment
Tony F Feuerman MD Amc$14K · 2 payments
Richard F Clark$14K · 3 payments
Charles S Lane MD$14K · 7 payments
Gary Vilke MD$14K · 4 payments
Semper Scientific Inc$13K · 15 payments
Strauss & Shavelle Inc$13K · 2 payments
Merati Economic Group Inc$12K · 1 payment

Payment volume

This order carries 338 payments totalling $1.2M, an average of $3,546. 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.