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What has the City paid on purchase order GAENV44BO20201925M?

$12.36M paid to 164 different vendors (the largest, Overdrive Inc, received $7.2M) across 1,363 payments from July 9, 2019 to August 19, 2020, charged to Library / Library Materials.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

164 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $12.4M 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

Library Materials

Budget line carrying the most money, of 4 this order is charged to.

Approval records

  • BO201925Authority code on the payments (OPEN ORDER).

Paid from

Library

restricted revenue (grants, fees or a dedicated tax) that can only be spent on this purpose — not general-fund tax dollars.

Department: Library

Paid to

Showing the 25 largest of 164 vendors on this order.

Overdrive Inc$7.2M · 485 payments
Midwest Tape, LLC$669K · 46 payments
Kanopy LLC$619K · 35 payments
Cox Subscriptions Inc$428K · 39 payments
Library Ideas LLC$423K · 29 payments
Proquest LLC$347K · 24 payments
Califa Group$264K · 19 payments
Gale Group$213K · 12 payments
Lectorum Publications Inc$202K · 40 payments
Latin American Book Source Inc$149K · 37 payments
Proquest LP$141K · 11 payments
Jesus Ituarte$139K · 61 payments
Recorded Books Inc$136K · 57 payments
Infousa Marketing Inc$99K · 6 payments
World Book Inc$90K · 3 payments
Cengage Learning$89K · 35 payments
Btac Acquisition Corp$79K · 6 payments
Midwest Library Service$54K · 29 payments
Ebsco Industries Inc$53K · 7 payments
Mergent Inc$48K · 5 payments
Nash Holdings LLC$32K · 2 payments
Senseio Bookstore Inc$32K · 18 payments
West Publishing Corporation$31K · 9 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 1,363 payments totalling $12.4M, an average of $9,068. 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.