CheckbookBudget line

What has the City spent on Contract Programming?

$2.1M across 203 payments, October 1, 2018 to August 12, 2026 — 13 purchase orders and 9 vendors, run by Housing.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: CONTRACT PROGRAMMING

Spans more than one contract

This budget line has run for 8 fiscal years across 13 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.

$2.1MTotal spent
13Purchase orders
9Vendors
47%Largest vendor's share

Spending by fiscal year

FY2018-19
$409K
FY2019-20
$567K
FY2020-21
$411K
FY2021-22
$405K
FY2023-24
$11K
FY2024-25
$45K
FY2025-26
$203K
FY2026-27 *
$89K

* FY2026-27 is still in progress — not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $0.

Who was paid

3DI Inc$1.0M

57 payments

74 payments

16 payments

25 payments

Softhq$89K

16 payments

2 payments

4 payments

1 payment

Under which orders

56 payments · December 4, 2018 to October 15, 2021

45 payments · February 22, 2019 to February 11, 2021

16 payments · September 11, 2025 to July 28, 2026

1 payment · February 2, 2022 to February 2, 2022

15 payments · June 15, 2021 to October 12, 2021

11 payments · October 1, 2018 to December 30, 2019

16 payments · February 26, 2019 to February 3, 2020

14 payments · February 28, 2019 to December 23, 2019

8 payments · March 19, 2026 to August 12, 2026

14 payments · November 18, 2021 to April 8, 2022

2 payments · April 9, 2025 to May 8, 2025

4 payments · February 19, 2020 to February 27, 2020

1 payment · November 8, 2023 to November 8, 2023

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.