CheckbookBudget line
What has the City spent on Communication Services?
$175.4M across 30,648 payments, July 12, 2017 to September 8, 2026 — 2,544 purchase orders and 132 vendors, run by Information Technology Agency.
As published: COMMUNICATION SERVICES
This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 2,544 separate purchase orders. A single payment in the register shows none of that — the commitment outlives any one order, and the orders are how it gets renewed.
Spending by fiscal year
* FY2026-27 is still in progress — not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $4.4M.
Who was paid
The 25 largest of 132 vendors on this line.
8,742 payments
1,633 payments
490 payments
2,483 payments
625 payments
209 payments
2,164 payments
473 payments
455 payments
82 payments
298 payments
240 payments
240 payments
3,030 payments
38 payments
1,270 payments
97 payments
70 payments
447 payments
181 payments
185 payments
2,894 payments
350 payments
34 payments
9 payments
Under which orders
The 39 largest of 2,544 purchase orders booked to this line.
1,296 payments · April 24, 2023 to December 24, 2024
1,177 payments · April 4, 2022 to June 9, 2023
1,122 payments · February 15, 2019 to March 3, 2020
1,075 payments · March 3, 2020 to August 10, 2021
810 payments · May 4, 2018 to February 28, 2019
710 payments · August 3, 2017 to May 4, 2018
89 payments · December 13, 2017 to July 23, 2019
97 payments · January 13, 2023 to December 16, 2024
806 payments · May 20, 2024 to October 16, 2025
632 payments · November 24, 2020 to December 6, 2021
864 payments · September 16, 2025 to September 3, 2026
90 payments · March 23, 2021 to January 7, 2022
92 payments · December 31, 2019 to June 2, 2021
1 payment · April 12, 2019 to April 12, 2019
47 payments · September 30, 2020 to February 25, 2022
78 payments · January 6, 2022 to February 27, 2023
200 payments · August 31, 2017 to February 11, 2020
993 payments · November 20, 2019 to September 24, 2020
142 payments · January 22, 2025 to March 20, 2026
20 payments · February 12, 2024 to May 30, 2024
74 payments · June 17, 2019 to April 23, 2020
33 payments · May 14, 2021 to September 12, 2022
37 payments · September 12, 2022 to March 6, 2024
226 payments · August 27, 2020 to October 29, 2021
128 payments · December 21, 2022 to December 21, 2022
33 payments · March 2, 2026 to August 12, 2026
26 payments · September 5, 2017 to December 13, 2017
34 payments · September 27, 2024 to March 2, 2026
32 payments · January 15, 2019 to January 10, 2020
134 payments · March 13, 2023 to August 21, 2024
98 payments · May 24, 2022 to December 13, 2022
30 payments · August 24, 2023 to August 29, 2024
63 payments · May 25, 2018 to August 6, 2018
20 payments · May 1, 2024 to October 1, 2025
23 payments · February 2, 2026 to February 2, 2026
58 payments · August 10, 2020 to March 8, 2021
484 payments · October 27, 2017 to October 9, 2018
1 payment · August 3, 2026 to August 3, 2026
107 payments · June 24, 2020 to April 19, 2022
Sources
LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), totalled nightly. Grouped by account_name, the budget line a payment is booked against — populated on every row, and the most useful field for understanding what a payment actually bought. Back to the checkbook.