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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE23001006M?

$1.76M paid to 84 different vendors (the largest, Adjudicate, Inc., received $233.9K) across 611 payments from July 14, 2022 to August 7, 2023, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

84 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $1.8M 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

Approval records

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

Order dated July 13, 2022.

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 84 vendors on this order.

Adjudicate, Inc.$234K · 90 payments
J. S. Held LLC$110K · 32 payments
Mlxperts LLC$104K · 27 payments
Semper Scientific Inc$92K · 52 payments
Rock E Miller$86K · 42 payments
Michele Martinez$74K · 9 payments
Adr Services Inc$73K · 66 payments
Signature Resolution, LLC$70K · 17 payments
Jams Inc$70K · 13 payments
Stivers & Associates Inc$44K · 17 payments
Justitia Consulting Inc$42K · 31 payments
Lightpoint Scientific LLC$31K · 9 payments
Exponent Inc$31K · 14 payments
Marshall Hennington$27K · 1 payment
Edward C Dumont$26K · 3 payments
Intertox Inc$25K · 4 payments
Ron Berman$20K · 3 payments
Accident Science, Inc$20K · 3 payments
Iso Services Inc$19K · 12 payments
Integra Realty Resources$19K · 4 payments
4X Forensic Engineering Lab$18K · 4 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 611 payments totalling $1.8M, an average of $2,880. 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.