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What has the City paid on purchase order GAENV56CF21CF971776M?

$573K paid to 150 different vendors (the largest, Multicolor Apparel Inc, received $75.0K) across 198 payments from July 24, 2020 to May 18, 2023, charged to Non-Departmental / Community Services District 10.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

150 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $573K 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

Community Services District 10

Budget line carrying the most money, of 15 this order is charged to.

Order description, as published:

FMS OPEN ENCUMBRANCES

Approval records

Order dated July 2, 2020.

Paid from

General Fund

discretionary tax dollars — this competes with police, fire, parks and everything else.

Department: Non-Departmental

Paid to

Showing the 25 largest of 150 vendors on this order.

Multicolor Apparel Inc$75K · 2 payments
Marilyn a Cole$19K · 4 payments
Star in the Sky Inc$18K · 2 payments
Suay Inc$18K · 1 payment
Bella Vida International Inc.$15K · 1 payment
Woodspoon Inc$15K · 1 payment
Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund, Inc$15K · 1 payment
H L Foodservice Inc$13K · 2 payments
Los Angeles Parks Foundation$10K · 3 payments
J-Tech Institute, Inc.$10K · 1 payment
Studio City Improvement Association$10K · 2 payments
Los Angeles LGBT Center$10K · 2 payments
Parents Educators / Teachers & Students in Action$10K · 2 payments
Johnny L Green$10K · 2 payments
We Are Laurel Canyon$9K · 2 payments
Rick's Produce Market$8K · 1 payment
LA Works /C$8K · 1 payment
North Figueroa Association$7K · 2 payments
Y M C a of Metropolitan Los Angeles /C$7K · 2 payments
Charles Puree$7K · 2 payments
Diy Girls$6K · 2 payments
Devonshire Is S O L I D$6K · 2 payments
Northridge Beautification Foundation$5K · 4 payments
LAPD Devonshire Police Activity League Supporters$5K · 1 payment
Granada Hills Rotary Foundation$5K · 1 payment

Payment volume

This order carries 198 payments totalling $573K, an average of $2,894. 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.