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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE86AE22000001M?

$13.88M paid to 80 different vendors (the largest, Oscar Jesus Rico, received $323.3K) across 2,090 payments from September 9, 2021 to September 21, 2022, charged to Public Works - Street Services / Contractual Services.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

80 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $13.9M 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.

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: Public Works - Street Services

Paid to

Showing the 25 largest of 80 vendors on this order.

Oscar Jesus Rico$323K · 29 payments
Oscar J Rico III$321K · 28 payments
Manuel E Gonzales$293K · 28 payments
Carlos Alberto Sanchez$271K · 26 payments
David G Bravo$264K · 35 payments
Otto Silvestre$263K · 29 payments
Santiago a Hernandez$263K · 28 payments
Herbert Palmer, Jr.$262K · 27 payments
Andrias Karapetian$259K · 30 payments
Earmie L Divinity$254K · 29 payments
Leodanis Majuan$254K · 29 payments
John I. Perez$251K · 26 payments
Hambik Harry Danielian$249K · 31 payments
Devon Andre Blankenship$247K · 31 payments
Alberto M Cruz$247K · 38 payments
Juan C. Alfonso$247K · 30 payments
Kevork Tchapanian$244K · 33 payments
Jose a Sanchez$238K · 37 payments
Manuel M Tchapanian$238K · 30 payments
Viken Mardirossian$237K · 30 payments
Michael Hernandez$235K · 27 payments
Oswaldo J Arroyo$229K · 28 payments
Pogos Baltayan$220K · 26 payments
Karapet Arakelyan$218K · 35 payments
Kelvin C Whittiker$218K · 24 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 2,090 payments totalling $13.9M, an average of $6,641. 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.