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What has the City paid on purchase order GAENV44BO21201952M?

$12.37M paid to 142 different vendors (the largest, Overdrive Inc, received $7.0M) across 1,345 payments from July 17, 2020 to July 28, 2021, charged to Library / Library Materials.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

142 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.

Order description, as published:

INITIAL ENCUMBRANCE $95,000.00 LINE 1 F300/9010 0716/20

Approval records

  • BO201952Authority code on the payments (OPEN ORDER).

Order dated July 16, 2020.

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 142 vendors on this order.

Overdrive Inc$7.0M · 550 payments
Midwest Tape, LLC$1.2M · 92 payments
Kanopy LLC$811K · 49 payments
Proquest LP$386K · 30 payments
Califa Group$360K · 24 payments
Cengage Learning$329K · 50 payments
Cox Subscriptions Inc$284K · 28 payments
Library Ideas LLC$248K · 15 payments
Recorded Books Inc$115K · 11 payments
Lectorum Publications Inc$115K · 48 payments
Infousa Marketing Inc$99K · 6 payments
Newsbank Inc$71K · 6 payments
Jesus Ituarte$68K · 48 payments
Ebsco Industries Inc$55K · 6 payments
Btac Acquisition Corp$54K · 4 payments
Value Line Publishing LLC$52K · 5 payments
Midwest Library Service$35K · 23 payments
Ketab Corp$34K · 6 payments
McGraw Hill Education, Inc$32K · 2 payments
Nash Holdings LLC$32K · 2 payments
West Publishing Corporation$29K · 7 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 1,345 payments totalling $12.4M, an average of $9,199. 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.