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What has the City spent on Laboratory Testing Expense?
$4.2M across 8,032 payments, July 3, 2017 to September 9, 2026 — 2,368 purchase orders and 161 vendors, run by General Services.
As published: LABORATORY TESTING EXPENSE
This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 2,368 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): $86K.
Who was paid
The 25 largest of 161 vendors on this line.
509 payments
460 payments
1,036 payments
25 payments
65 payments
96 payments
272 payments
23 payments
880 payments
232 payments
35 payments
10 payments
266 payments
35 payments
88 payments
591 payments
186 payments
165 payments
271 payments
28 payments
18 payments
78 payments
20 payments
21 payments
73 payments
Under which orders
The 39 largest of 2,368 purchase orders booked to this line.
2 payments · March 19, 2025 to March 19, 2025
1 payment · June 11, 2025 to June 11, 2025
8 payments · June 12, 2023 to August 4, 2023
18 payments · July 31, 2019 to August 22, 2019
2 payments · October 10, 2023 to October 10, 2023
4 payments · July 26, 2024 to July 26, 2024
2 payments · March 19, 2025 to March 19, 2025
1 payment · April 15, 2024 to April 15, 2024
1 payment · November 9, 2018 to November 9, 2018
8 payments · June 9, 2023 to August 18, 2023
1 payment · February 4, 2025 to February 4, 2025
1 payment · May 22, 2020 to May 22, 2020
3 payments · July 22, 2025 to May 21, 2026
9 payments · October 13, 2022 to October 13, 2022
2 payments · February 13, 2024 to February 13, 2024
4 payments · August 7, 2018 to August 7, 2018
1 payment · September 28, 2021 to September 28, 2021
1 payment · August 28, 2024 to August 28, 2024
3 payments · December 1, 2022 to December 1, 2022
4 payments · April 20, 2018 to April 20, 2018
1 payment · July 25, 2022 to July 25, 2022
1 payment · November 8, 2022 to November 8, 2022
1 payment · November 17, 2022 to November 17, 2022
5 payments · June 24, 2019 to July 31, 2019
2 payments · March 2, 2018 to March 2, 2018
42 payments · August 14, 2026 to August 14, 2026
4 payments · October 4, 2017 to October 4, 2017
3 payments · July 24, 2019 to July 24, 2019
1 payment · October 8, 2025 to October 8, 2025
2 payments · September 8, 2017 to April 23, 2018
1 payment · May 11, 2026 to May 11, 2026
9 payments · April 17, 2024 to June 4, 2024
11 payments · May 2, 2025 to May 2, 2025
2 payments · August 27, 2019 to June 1, 2020
1 payment · July 19, 2019 to July 19, 2019
1 payment · September 2, 2021 to September 2, 2021
3 payments · September 27, 2021 to September 27, 2021
1 payment · April 8, 2024 to April 8, 2024
1 payment · March 7, 2024 to March 7, 2024
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.