Paid by the city

BFI WASTE SERVICES OF TX LP

The city's published checkbook records $121,393,607 paid to BFI WASTE SERVICES OF TX LP across 6,871 payment lines, from FY2018 to FY2026.

Name as the city files it — often the legal name, not the trading name. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2026 means July 2025 through June 2026.

By fiscal year

FY2018$1,711,055

FY2019$1,597,913

FY2020$6,917,411

FY2021$17,341,685

FY2022$14,226,690

FY2023$17,002,855

FY2024$17,186,474

FY2025$21,086,756

FY2026$24,322,768

A dash means no payment to this vendor appears in that year's file. The city publishes this a few times a year, so it runs behind — the newest payments can take a few months to appear, and a fiscal year that has just ended usually isn't published at all yet. Treat the most recent year as incomplete.

Which department paid

Solid Waste Management$103,810,450

Houston Airport System (HAS)$6,771,020

General Services Department$4,958,036

Houston Public Works - HPW$3,967,547

Parks & Recreation$1,839,921

Fleet Management Department$35,314

Houston Health Department$11,319

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $119,240,618

PO Contract Release — $1,773,139

PO One-time — $261,235

PO Emergency — $86,499

Vendor Invoice — $32,113

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded. None of this vendor's payments were flagged sole-source or emergency.

Contracts billed under

4600015954 — $103,777,741

4600014255 — $6,125,734

4600015416 — $3,710,311

4600017996 — $3,251,942

4600018561 — $1,772,853

4600012253 — $1,289,376

4600013930 — $700,282

4600017505 — $227,496

4600011327 — $150,570

4600016815 — $7,452

A contract number is the city's master agreement; individual purchases are released against it and don't each go back to council for a vote.

Where this comes from

Every figure on this page is summed from the City of Houston's published checkbook ↗, FY2018–FY2026. PlainDocket stores the totals; the individual payments stay on the city's portal, where you can filter them yourself.

These are payments, not a budget. The same ledger carries debt payments, bank and pension transfers and accounting reversals alongside what the city bought, so adding it all up doesn't describe city spending — which is why you won't find a citywide total here. What a named vendor or department was paid is solid.
This covers what the city paid — not what a council vote approved. A contract approved years ago can still be generating payments, and money approved recently may not have been paid yet.