Paid by the city

HACH COMPANY

The city's published checkbook records $9,255,631 paid to HACH COMPANY across 1,612 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$607,639

FY2019$459,303

FY2020$534,897

FY2021$1,361,772

FY2022$468,136

FY2023$710,820

FY2024$832,899

FY2025$1,034,036

FY2026$2,140,686

FY2027$1,105,443

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$7,897,595

Houston Health Department$1,358,036

How these purchases were made

PO Contract Release — $7,928,626

PO Emergency — $892,276

PO One-time — $228,078

PO Sole Source — $172,282

Service Rel. Order — $31,136

Vendor Invoice — $3,232

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded: 2% ran through sole-source purchasing, meaning the city did not take competing bids for it, and 10% was bought under emergency procurement rules. The city publishes the route, not the reason for it.

Contracts billed under

4600017094 — $6,200,220

4600014090 — $1,851,081

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.