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What has the City paid Best Contracting Services Inc.?

$50.5M in City payments across 3,317 checks, from July 17, 2017 to September 9, 2026. Outside-vendor scope only — payroll, transfers, debt and pension custody are excluded.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: BEST CONTRACTING SERVICES INC.

Recorded under 2 spellings

The Controller records vendor names as free text, so this firm appears under 2 different spellings. They are added together here, and listed in full so the arithmetic is checkable:

  • BEST CONTRACTING SERVICES INC.
  • BEST CONTRACTING SERVICES INC
$50.5MTotal paid
3,317Payments
$15,238Average payment
FY2025-26Peak full year · $13.1M

By fiscal year

FY2017-18
$3.4M
FY2018-19
$2.2M
FY2019-20
$4.1M
FY2020-21
$2.1M
FY2021-22
$1.1M
FY2022-23
$6.9M
FY2023-24
$7.0M
FY2024-25
$9.5M
FY2025-26
$13.1M
FY2026-27 *
$1.3M

Who pays them

General Services$20.3M
Recreation and Parks – Special Accounts$15.3M
Non-departmental: Capital Improvement Expense Program$5.5M
Library$4.5M
Recreation and Parks$2.7M
Non-departmental$804K
Zoo$458K
Non-departmental: Appropriations to Special Purpose Fund$348K
Transportation$327K
Public Works – Sanitation$283K

What for

Construction Materials$7.0M

413 payments

Park Mitigation Fee$6.3M

98 payments

Contractual Services$5.6M

333 payments

Citywide Roofing Repair$4.3M

450 payments

Citywide Roof Capital Repairs$2.8M

150 payments

Quimby in Lieu Fee$2.7M

23 payments

Greek Theatre Capital Improvements$1.8M

21 payments

Maintenance Materials, Supplies & Services$1.7M

687 payments

Maintenance at Recreation and Parks Facilities$1.6M

15 payments

Child Care and Learning Centers$1.5M

9 payments

Citywide Roof Capital Repair$1.5M

130 payments

Citywide Roof Repairs$1.5M

170 payments

* FY2026-27 is still in progress — $1.3M so far, not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $381K.

Most recent payments

The 25 latest to post. Purpose strings are the Controller's own reference codes — the budget line in the second column is usually the more informative field.

DateBudget linePurposeAmount
September 9, 2026Building Equipment Life Cycle Repl ProgramGeneral ServicesMATERIALS$119,518
September 9, 2026Building Equipment Life Cycle Repl ProgramGeneral ServicesLABOR, INSTALL MATERIALS$108,900
September 9, 2026Building Equipment Life Cycle Repl ProgramGeneral ServicesLABOR, HOURLY RATES$26,136
September 9, 2026Building Equipment Life Cycle Repl ProgramGeneral ServicesSPECIAL PROJECTS$25,111
September 9, 2026Building Equipment Life Cycle Repl ProgramGeneral ServicesLABOR, HOURLY RATES$19,635
September 9, 2026Construction MaterialsGeneral ServicesCL#4 - LABOR FOR ROOFER$15,400
September 9, 2026Construction MaterialsGeneral ServicesCL#9B MILL PVC$6,960
September 9, 2026Construction MaterialsGeneral ServicesCL#9B MILL PVC$6,673
September 9, 2026Construction MaterialsGeneral ServicesCL#7A - DENS DECK 1/3$2,200
September 9, 2026Construction MaterialsGeneral ServicesCL#7A - DENS DECK 1/3$1,668
September 8, 2026Contractual ServicesLibraryPERMIT COSTS FOR JUNIPERO SERRA$3,052
September 8, 2026Maintenance Materials, Supplies & ServicesGeneral ServicesEMERGENCY CALL-OUT TRIP CHARGE$1,276
September 8, 2026Maintenance Materials, Supplies & ServicesGeneral ServicesEMERGENCY CALL-OUT TRIP CHARGE$1,276
September 8, 2026Maintenance Materials, Supplies & ServicesGeneral ServicesEMERGENCY CALL-OUT TRIP CHARGE$1,276
September 8, 2026Maintenance Materials, Supplies & ServicesGeneral ServicesLABOR, HOURLY RATES$616
September 8, 2026Maintenance Materials, Supplies & ServicesGeneral ServicesLABOR, HOURLY RATES$308
September 8, 2026Maintenance Materials, Supplies & ServicesGeneral ServicesLABOR, HOURLY RATES$308
September 3, 2026Maintenance Materials, Supplies & ServicesGeneral ServicesEMERGENCY CALL-OUT TRIP CHARGE$1,276
September 3, 2026Maintenance Materials, Supplies & ServicesGeneral ServicesLABOR, HOURLY RATES$616
August 27, 2026Construction MaterialsGeneral ServicesPAYMENT & PERFORMANCE BOND$250
August 25, 2026Maintenance Materials, Supplies & ServicesGeneral ServicesMATERIALS$175,600
August 25, 2026Maintenance Materials, Supplies & ServicesGeneral ServicesLABOR, INSTALL MATERIALS$98,000
August 25, 2026Maintenance Materials, Supplies & ServicesGeneral ServicesMATERIALS$65,192
August 25, 2026Maintenance Materials, Supplies & ServicesGeneral ServicesLABOR, INSTALL MATERIALS$59,400
August 25, 2026Maintenance Materials, Supplies & ServicesGeneral ServicesLABOR, HOURLY RATES$47,047

Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (dataset pggv-e4fn), totalled nightly. Figures are every payment on record within the outside-vendor scope, not a single fiscal year. Back to the checkbook.