SpendingContractsPurchase order
What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE40AE20400025M?
$3.91M paid to 2 different vendors (the largest, Southern California Gas Co, received $3.5M) across 330 payments from August 8, 2019 to August 31, 2020, charged to General Services / Utilities Expense Private Company.
2 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $3.9M 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.
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: General Services
Paid to
Payment volume
This order carries 330 payments totalling $3.9M, an average of $11,848. 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.