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What has the City paid on purchase order GAENV94CF23220931M?

$2.80M paid to 9 different vendors (the largest, Bell Cab Company Inc, received $2.4M) across 335 payments from September 27, 2022 to September 3, 2025, charged to Transportation / Cityride Fare Card.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

9 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $2.8M 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

Cityride Fare Card

Budget line.

Order description, as published:

PRIVACY-TRANSPORTATION

Approval records

Paid from

Proposition a Local Transit

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

Department: Transportation

Paid to

Bell Cab Company Inc$2.4M · 69 payments
South Bay Cooperative Inc$170K · 38 payments
Privacy-Transportation$107K · 30 payments
United Independent Taxi Drivers Inc$82K · 47 payments
Independent Taxi Owners Assoc /C$47K · 38 payments
LA City Cab LLC$18K · 38 payments
L.A. Taxi Cooperative Inc.$13K · 24 payments
L.A. Taxi Co-Operative Inc.$9K · 14 payments
Beverly Hills Transit Inc$6K · 37 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 335 payments totalling $2.8M, an average of $8,368. 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.