SpendingContractsPurchase order

What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE66AE21AF9000M?

$1.83M paid to 36 different vendors (the largest, Santa Monica UCLA Medical Ctr, received $471.2K) across 846 payments from September 10, 2020 to February 10, 2025, charged to Personnel / Contractual Services.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

36 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

Contractual Services

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: Personnel

Paid to

Showing the 25 largest of 36 vendors on this order.

Payment volume

This order carries 846 payments totalling $1.8M, an average of $2,160. 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.