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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE86AE23000001M?

$13.72M paid to 90 different vendors (the largest, Felipe Gonzalez Jr, received $243.1K) across 2,350 payments from August 4, 2022 to July 13, 2023, charged to Public Works - Street Services / Contractual Services.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

90 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $13.7M 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.

Order description, as published:

ENCUMBER $15,000,000 FOR TRUCKER OWNERS ON FILE

Approval records

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

Order dated July 20, 2022.

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 90 vendors on this order.

Felipe Gonzalez Jr$243K · 27 payments
Oscar Jesus Rico$239K · 28 payments
Jose a Sanchez$233K · 37 payments
Oscar J Rico III$233K · 27 payments
Santiago a Hernandez$220K · 27 payments
Armen Margaryan$217K · 30 payments
Carlos Alberto Sanchez$215K · 24 payments
Oswaldo J Arroyo$214K · 27 payments
Alfredo Torrijos$213K · 27 payments
Hambik Harry Danielian$212K · 26 payments
Anteranik Choulakians$209K · 29 payments
Manuel E Gonzales$205K · 29 payments
Alen Khachikyan$205K · 32 payments
Viken Mardirossian$204K · 32 payments
Herbert Palmer, Jr.$200K · 25 payments
Leodanis Majuan$199K · 28 payments
Kevork Tchapanian$199K · 25 payments
Sandra Kay Cockrell$196K · 28 payments
Andranik Palyan$196K · 28 payments
Jose Arias Jimenez$195K · 35 payments
John I. Perez$195K · 25 payments
Michael Hernandez$191K · 25 payments
Andrias Karapetian$190K · 24 payments
Victor Vasquez, Sr.$187K · 39 payments
Manuel M Tchapanian$185K · 25 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 2,350 payments totalling $13.7M, an average of $5,838. 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.