Paid by the city

FREESE AND NICHOLS INC

The city's published checkbook records $27,145,857 paid to FREESE AND NICHOLS INC across 1,129 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$515,997

FY2019$2,686,677

FY2020$1,967,924

FY2021$5,984,465

FY2022$1,414,603

FY2023$1,999,777

FY2024$2,924,732

FY2025$2,805,299

FY2026$4,076,999

FY2027$2,769,384

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$19,379,249

Houston Airport System (HAS)$7,766,608

How these purchases were made

PO Cap Proj Release — $15,881,382

Service Rel. Order — $10,956,426

PO One-time — $205,203

PO Emergency — $98,557

Vendor Invoice — $4,290

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

Contracts billed under

4600016190 — $7,766,608

4600016131 — $5,298,178

4600018759 — $2,624,988

4600014671 — $2,499,337

4600012693 — $2,476,227

4600013044 — $1,837,734

4600015926 — $1,288,998

4600018536 — $1,211,126

4600015542 — $1,060,271

4600017544 — $690,482

4600011952 — $78,763

4600011463 — $5,096

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.