Paid by the city

BROWN AND ROOT INDUSTRIAL SERVICES

The city's published checkbook records $69,819,294 paid to BROWN AND ROOT INDUSTRIAL SERVICES across 2,131 payment lines, from FY2018 to FY2027.

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 FY2027 means July 2026 through June 2027.

By fiscal year

FY2018$148,151

FY2019$2,447,959

FY2020$7,581,592

FY2021$10,667,123

FY2022$7,494,984

FY2023$10,308,545

FY2024$8,817,545

FY2025$8,171,900

FY2026$10,934,742

FY2027$3,246,753

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$31,269,174

Houston Police Department-HPD$8,650,673

Houston Airport System (HAS)$8,155,711

General Services Department$5,080,604

Houston Health Department$4,866,379

Houston Fire Department (HFD)$3,125,086

Parks & Recreation$2,717,264

Library$2,003,811

Mayor's Office$1,800,727

Solid Waste Management$803,737

Human Resources Dept.$645,546

Citywide General Government$225,989

Houston Emergency Center (HEC)$190,849

Fleet Management Department$170,578

Finance$78,438

Houston Information Tech Svcs$22,548

Admn. & Regulatory Affairs$12,180

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $30,131,406

PO Cap Proj Release — $22,493,943

PO Contract Release — $14,502,294

PO Interlocal — $3,167,785

PO One-time — $386,027

PO Emergency — $180,898

Vendor Invoice — -$1,043,059

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

Contracts billed under

4600015097 — $22,037,819

4600015649 — $21,760,325

4600014455 — $7,547,012

4600017064 — $5,943,958

4600018749 — $5,831,409

4600014972 — $2,193,266

4600019081 — $733,618

4600019366 — $587,153

4600018729 — $546,575

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–FY2027. 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.