Paid by the city

CDM SMITH INC

The city's published checkbook records $16,782,503 paid to CDM SMITH INC across 175 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$299,537

FY2019$691,846

FY2020$1,130,814

FY2021$887,396

FY2022$1,297,071

FY2023$1,912,243

FY2024$461,806

FY2025$2,560,113

FY2026$4,942,773

FY2027$2,598,904

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$16,710,099

Houston Airport System (HAS)$72,404

How these purchases were made

PO Cap Proj Release — $12,181,601

Service Rel. Order — $4,550,945

PO One-time — $49,900

Vendor Invoice — $58

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

Contracts billed under

4600018244 — $4,550,945

4600015842 — $3,298,429

4600016630 — $2,697,977

4600013191 — $1,600,274

4600019132 — $1,034,447

4600013789 — $1,014,672

4600018106 — $921,713

4600019128 — $840,395

4600012024 — $506,508

4600012549 — $106,886

4600010996 — $87,896

4600012127 — $72,404

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.