Paid by the city

CARAHSOFT TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

The city's published checkbook records $17,206,343 paid to CARAHSOFT TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION across 598 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$252,894

FY2019$80,161

FY2020$261,035

FY2021$2,651,611

FY2022$2,524,218

FY2023$1,904,908

FY2024$1,944,335

FY2025$2,640,141

FY2026$4,947,040

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 Health Department$4,774,821

Houston Airport System (HAS)$4,293,851

Houston Public Works - HPW$3,056,820

Houston Information Tech Svcs$2,668,333

Admn. & Regulatory Affairs$695,132

Human Resources Dept.$585,907

Houston Police Department-HPD$341,758

Library$307,224

Finance$228,921

Mayor's Office$149,049

Municipal Courts Department$86,689

Houston Fire Department (HFD)$12,879

Housing and Community Devp.$4,959

How these purchases were made

PO Contract Release — $12,426,627

PO Emergency — $3,942,332

PO One-time — $544,435

Vendor Invoice — $131,085

PO Interlocal — $81,892

Service Rel. Order — $79,967

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded: 23% was bought under emergency procurement rules. The city publishes the route, not the reason for it.

Contracts billed under

4600018334 — $2,053,591

4600019030 — $1,501,693

4600016539 — $1,185,959

4600017213 — $1,095,875

4600017690 — $971,669

4600017525 — $858,177

4600019149 — $710,375

4600019032 — $662,102

4600018350 — $615,445

4600019278 — $473,138

4600015997 — $378,570

4600018969 — $350,401

The 12 largest of 28 contract numbers this vendor billed under. 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.