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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE25001006M?

$3.39M paid to 116 different vendors (the largest, Adjudicate, Inc., received $522.2K) across 1,285 payments from September 11, 2024 to May 18, 2026, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

116 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $3.4M 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 August 22, 2024.

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 116 vendors on this order.

Adjudicate, Inc.$522K · 179 payments
Paragon Forensics LLC$388K · 192 payments
Adr Services Inc$318K · 113 payments
J. S. Held LLC$162K · 26 payments
Signature Resolution, LLC$156K · 29 payments
Geopentech Inc$136K · 5 payments
Collision & Injury Dynamics /C$113K · 35 payments
Rock E Miller$96K · 43 payments
Steno Agency Inc$82K · 86 payments
Aperture Holdco LLC$74K · 6 payments
Guidance Engineering and$72K · 21 payments
Ben Hyatt Corporation$69K · 89 payments
Stivers & Associates Inc$55K · 17 payments
Richard T Copeland$55K · 39 payments
Jams Inc$47K · 10 payments
Duo Rotae LLC$39K · 15 payments
Dial Engineering$37K · 12 payments
Justitia Consulting Inc$34K · 19 payments
Mitchell C Green$31K · 20 payments
Jonnell Agnew$28K · 37 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 1,285 payments totalling $3.4M, an average of $2,639. 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.