CheckbookBudget line

What has the City spent on Systems Development Project Costs?

$19.4M across 2,612 payments, July 12, 2017 to September 8, 2026 — 658 purchase orders and 51 vendors, run by Building and Safety.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT PROJECT COSTS

Spans more than one contract

This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 658 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.

$19.4MTotal spent
658Purchase orders
51Vendors
24%Largest vendor's share

Spending by fiscal year

FY2017-18
$1.9M
FY2018-19
$1.3M
FY2019-20
$1.2M
FY2020-21
$2.9M
FY2021-22
$2.3M
FY2022-23
$4.8M
FY2023-24
$2.1M
FY2024-25
$1.1M
FY2025-26
$1.7M
FY2026-27 *
$102K

* FY2026-27 is still in progress — not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $410K.

Who was paid

The 25 largest of 51 vendors on this line.

446 payments

105 payments

21 payments

17 payments

25 payments

856 payments

87 payments

HP Inc.$528K

52 payments

12 payments

62 payments

134 payments

7 payments

17 payments

11 payments

19 payments

9 payments

22 payments

Under which orders

The 39 largest of 658 purchase orders booked to this line.

14 payments · July 29, 2022 to April 25, 2024

14 payments · August 2, 2022 to August 24, 2023

24 payments · July 19, 2022 to July 19, 2022

1 payment · March 11, 2024 to March 11, 2024

4 payments · September 15, 2017 to May 21, 2018

2 payments · October 22, 2021 to December 7, 2021

33 payments · July 25, 2022 to July 25, 2022

8 payments · January 17, 2018 to January 17, 2018

1 payment · December 31, 2018 to December 31, 2018

24 payments · September 8, 2020 to September 8, 2020

25 payments · July 3, 2023 to July 3, 2023

21 payments · May 28, 2019 to May 28, 2019

3 payments · April 5, 2018 to December 20, 2018

20 payments · July 5, 2024 to July 5, 2024

27 payments · April 24, 2025 to December 16, 2025

7 payments · July 10, 2024 to March 26, 2025

185 payments · September 27, 2019 to June 4, 2020

6 payments · December 4, 2019 to December 4, 2019

7 payments · June 11, 2021 to August 30, 2021

6 payments · December 17, 2018 to December 17, 2018

3 payments · January 30, 2023 to January 30, 2023

12 payments · September 15, 2022 to August 2, 2023

224 payments · July 14, 2020 to April 22, 2021

1 payment · June 10, 2024 to June 10, 2024

60 payments · May 11, 2022 to June 12, 2023

1 payment · September 3, 2025 to September 3, 2025

26 payments · September 30, 2025 to August 11, 2026

2 payments · October 6, 2020 to October 6, 2020

196 payments · May 25, 2023 to May 25, 2023

2 payments · January 15, 2020 to January 15, 2020

1 payment · January 23, 2020 to January 23, 2020

1 payment · March 5, 2021 to March 5, 2021

213 payments · December 22, 2021 to April 12, 2022

19 payments · November 21, 2025 to September 8, 2026

7 payments · July 24, 2017 to July 24, 2017

5 payments · December 16, 2021 to February 17, 2023

6 payments · March 10, 2026 to March 10, 2026

1 payment · August 18, 2017 to August 18, 2017

2 payments · March 7, 2022 to March 7, 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.