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What has the City paid on purchase order GAENV59CF22220732M?

$9.50M paid to 6 different vendors (the largest, McLane Bednarski & Litt LLP, received $5.0M) across 6 payments from July 25, 2022 to September 1, 2022, charged to Non-Departmental / Police Liability Payouts.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

6 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $9.5M 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

Police Liability Payouts

Budget line carrying the most money, of 2 this order is charged to.

Order description, as published:

BC702166/SHEAR; BC704465/DOE; CV18-05775/WILSON

Approval records

Order dated June 30, 2022.

Paid from

General Fund

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

Department: Non-Departmental

Paid to

McLane Bednarski & Litt LLP$5.0M · 1 payment
Paoli & Purdy, PC$2.8M · 1 payment
Structured Assignments, SCC$300K · 1 payment
Metlife Assignment Co Inc.$299K · 1 payment
Carrillo Law Firm, LLP$199K · 1 payment

Every payment, in order

Payment requests are numbered sequentially by the City, so the order here is the order they were approved. Several requests clearing on one day usually means invoices were held and released together.

#PaidInvoicedLagReferenceAmount
1July 25, 2022July 23, 20222dBC702166/SHEAR, TYLER/CF20-0555, CF22-0732/D.SASSOUIAN/WC$2,806,667
2July 25, 2022July 23, 20222dBC702166/SHEAR, TYLER/CF20-0555, CF22-0732/D.SASSOUIAN/WC$893,333
3July 25, 2022July 23, 20222dBC702166/SHEAR, TYLER/CF20-0555, CF22-0732/D.SASSOUIAN/WC$300,000
4August 10, 2022July 23, 202218dCV18-05775/WILSON, ANDREW/CF22-0732, CF 21-1092/S.SHEPHERD$5,000,000
5August 23, 2022August 15, 20228dBC704465/DOE, JANE/CF22-0732/CF21-0091/K.WOODWARD$298,500
6September 1, 2022August 15, 202217dBC704465/DOE, JANE/CF22-0732/CF21-0091/K.WOODWARD/WC$199,000

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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.