Paid by the city

BRENNTAG SOUTHWEST

The city's published checkbook records $54,629,550 paid to BRENNTAG SOUTHWEST across 5,596 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$11,141,267

FY2019$9,825,628

FY2020$8,122,973

FY2021$1,737,628

FY2022$2,467,414

FY2023$4,224,538

FY2024$3,184,987

FY2025$6,213,617

FY2026$7,711,498

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$54,629,550

How these purchases were made

PO Contract Release — $51,587,708

PO Emergency — $2,853,264

PO One-time — $137,924

Vendor Invoice — $50,654

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded: 5% was bought under emergency procurement rules. The city publishes the route, not the reason for it.

Contracts billed under

4600012287 — $21,636,843

4600018378 — $11,179,698

4600014755 — $10,570,849

4600012288 — $2,693,748

4600018340 — $2,126,623

4600015214 — $2,121,217

4600012258 — $841,780

4600012289 — $416,950

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.