Paid by the city

BLACK & VEATCH CORP

The city's published checkbook records $17,166,968 paid to BLACK & VEATCH CORP across 168 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$165,616

FY2019$251,793

FY2020$177,387

FY2021$5,574,690

FY2022$1,804,250

FY2023$1,129,066

FY2024$2,219,344

FY2025$3,564,602

FY2026$2,280,220

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

Houston Public Works - HPW$14,436,012

Housing and Community Devp.$2,730,956

How these purchases were made

PO Cap Proj Release — $13,937,011

Service Rel. Order — $3,045,940

PO One-time — $176,211

PO Interlocal — $8,255

Vendor Invoice — -$449

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

Contracts billed under

4600016130 — $4,825,810

4600015710 — $4,492,508

4600017995 — $3,146,228

4600017354 — $2,730,956

4600015553 — $1,217,582

4600015000 — $314,984

4600012577 — $147,004

4600011885 — $96,178

4600011513 — $11,701

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.