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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE26001060M?

$549K paid to 5 different vendors (the largest, Delta Consulting Group Inc, received $269.1K) across 13 payments from November 7, 2025 to May 12, 2026, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

Checkbook LA · Updated Sep 22, 2026
A blanket order, not one firm's contract

5 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $549K 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 (PW/SANITATION)

Approval records

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

Order dated October 31, 2025.

Paid from

General Fund

discretionary tax dollars — this competes with police, fire, parks and everything else.

Department: City Attorney

Paid to

Delta Consulting Group Inc$269K · 5 payments
Staheli Trenchless Consultants Inc$111K · 4 payments
Berkeley Research Group, LLC$105K · 1 payment
R J Essex LLC$44K · 1 payment
Christopher J Soelling$21K · 2 payments

Every payment, in order

Payment requests are numbered sequentially by the City, so the order here is the order they were approved. Several requests clearing on one day usually means invoices were held and released together.

#PaidInvoicedLagReferenceAmount
1November 7, 2025October 14, 202524dVADNAIS TRENCHLESS SVCS 23STCV26802 JUNE 2025 / LASAN / J GOSS /$98,320
2November 7, 2025October 14, 202524dVADNAIS TRENCHLESS SVCS 23STCV26802 MAY-JUNE 2025 / LASAN / J GOSS /$51,514
3November 7, 2025October 14, 202524dVADNAIS TRENCHLESS SVCS 23STCV26802 APR 2025 / LASAN / J GOSS /$15,566
4November 10, 2025October 14, 202527dVADNAIS TRENCHLESS SVCS 23STCV26802 MAY 2025 / J GOSS / FUNDING FR LASAN 761/50/50WX82N / J GOSS /$126,691
5November 13, 2025October 14, 202530dVADNAIS TRENCHLESS SVCS 23STCV26802 VDFM MAY-JULY 2025 / LASAN / J GOSS$43,950
6November 17, 2025October 14, 202534dVADNAIS TRENCHLESS SVCS 23STCV26802 MAY 2024-MAR 2025 / LASAN / J GOSS$41,180
7November 21, 2025November 18, 20253dJULY 2025 VADNAIS TRENCHLESS SVCS INC 23STCV26802 / LASAN / J GOSS$20,825
8December 30, 2025December 16, 202514dVADNAIS TRENCHLESS SVCS 23STCV26802 JULY 2025/ CLIENT-MATTER 665-1 /LASAN / J GOSS /$27,940
9December 30, 2025December 16, 202514dVADNAIS TRENCHLESS SVCS 23STCV26802 AUG 2025/ CLIENT-MATTER 665-1 /LASAN / J GOSS /$550
10February 23, 2026January 26, 202628dJULY 2025 VADNAIS TRENCHLESS SVCS INC 23STCV26802 / LASAN / J GOSS$20
11April 20, 2026April 16, 20264dVADNAIS TRENCHLESS SVCS 23STCV26802 JULY 2025 / LASAN / J GOSS /$16,538
12April 20, 2026April 16, 20264dVADNAIS TRENCHLESS SVCS 23STCV26802 AUG 2025 / LASAN / J GOSS /$1,385
13May 12, 2026April 21, 202621d060725-073125 VADNAIS TRENCHLESS SVCS 23STCV26802 / LASAN/ J GOSS/ VENICE DUAL FORCE MAIN & VENICE P$104,743

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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.