SpendingContractsPurchase order
What has the City paid on purchase order SC38CO23135817M?
$208K paid to 2 different vendors (the largest, Howroyd-Wright Employment Agency Inc, received $182.6K) across 173 payments from August 11, 2022 to June 21, 2023, charged to Fire / Contractual Services.
2 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $208K 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
Contractual Services
Budget line.
Approval records
No council file, contract number or payment authority appears in this order's checkbook records.
Paid from
General Fund
discretionary tax dollars — this competes with police, fire, parks and everything else.
Department: Fire
Paid to
Payment volume
This order carries 173 payments totalling $208K, an average of $1,202. 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.