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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE23001004M?

$230K paid to 50 different vendors (the largest, Network Deposition Services Inc, received $43.4K) across 327 payments from August 5, 2022 to October 19, 2023, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

50 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $230K 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 50 vendors on this order.

Huseby Inc$19K · 28 payments
Veritext LLC$18K · 28 payments
US Legal Support, Inc.$14K · 23 payments
Magna Legal Services LLC$10K · 7 payments
Speakwrite LLC$9K · 7 payments
Claudia Amezcua Hagopian$9K · 4 payments
Barkley Court Reporters Inc$6K · 11 payments
TSG Reporting Inc$6K · 5 payments
FTR LTD$5K · 18 payments
M & C Corp$4K · 6 payments
Hines Reporters.com Inc$3K · 6 payments
Dianne Jones & Associates$3K · 5 payments
Cockle Printing Co Inc$2K · 1 payment
Biehl Et Al CSR Inc$2K · 4 payments
Judy K Moore$2K · 2 payments
Katherine L. Waki$2K · 2 payments
Cindy Cameron$2K · 5 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 327 payments totalling $230K, an average of $703. 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.