CenturyLink Communications, LLC
Lobbying client
A telecommunications subsidiary that operates under the CenturyLink brand for legacy copper-line phone and internet service, part of Lumen Technologies, which renamed itself from CenturyLink in 2020 (ticker LUMN). It has filed 9 disclosures in 2024 and 2026 through Park Strategies, seeking city procurement of information-technology products and services, and currently holds active city contracts worth about $28.9 million as of August 2026.
- Council members lobbied
- None named (agencies/administration)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 9
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $100,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Professional Services
- City contracts (active)
- $28,882,685 · 2 contracts
- Awarded all-time
- $53,704,666 · 4 since 2018, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $46,084,436
- Won without a fresh bid
- 72% of contract value · $38,455,773 · 3 contracts
- Based in
- Monroe, LA (out of state)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Park Strategies, LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Board of Elections City agency
- Department of Education City agency
- Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Board of Elections City agency
- Department of Education City agency
- Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Procurement - Procurement of Information Technology products and services.
- Procurement - Procurement of information technology solutions
City contracts
Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).
- Citywide Telecommunications Services TEA (Lumen) Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · CT185820238807347 $28,095,469
- Purchasing 175 Cradle point, and 6 years of the license Board of Elections · CT100320241405807 $787,216
- Citywide Telecommunication Services Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · CT185820181421424 · ended 2023 $15,248,893
- DOIIT Master Agreement ride for Telecommunication Services Department of Education · CT104020209058855 · ended 2023 $9,573,088
Largest payments, by purpose
The organization's largest individual city payments (roughly $25,000 and up), grouped by purpose, to show what recent money was for. This is NOT a total — smaller payments aren't listed; see “Paid to date” above for the complete amount paid against its contracts. Fiscal years 2020 and later.
- Citywide Telecommunications Services TEA (Lumen) Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2025 · 43 payments $4,259,265
- Citywide Telecommunications Services TEA (Lumen) Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2024 · 35 payments $3,721,002
- DOIIT Master Agreement ride for Telecommunication Services Department of Education · FY2022 · 10 payments $3,715,964
- Citywide Telecommunication Services Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2020 $3,212,599
- Citywide Telecommunication Services Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2022 · 33 payments $3,114,750
- DOIIT Master Agreement ride for Telecommunication Services Department of Education · FY2021 · 13 payments $2,364,090
- Citywide Telecommunication Services Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2023 · 26 payments $1,721,042
- Citywide Telecommunications Services TEA (Lumen) Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2026 · 18 payments $1,715,504
- DOIIT Master Agreement ride for Telecommunication Services Department of Education · FY2023 · 2 payments $879,231
- Citywide Telecommunication Services Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2021 · 14 payments $846,595
- Citywide Telecommunication Services Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2024 · 3 payments $604,224
- Purchasing 175 Cradle point, and 6 years of the license Board of Elections · FY2024 $473,765