Paid by the city

LEM CONSTRUCTION CO INC

The city's published checkbook records $182,983,719 paid to LEM CONSTRUCTION CO INC across 1,884 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$17,269,374

FY2019$16,541,586

FY2020$14,129,110

FY2021$7,121,503

FY2022$17,767,240

FY2023$27,466,733

FY2024$34,387,011

FY2025$25,025,138

FY2026$23,276,024

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$186,795,601

Constant In and Out-$3,811,882

How these purchases were made

PO Cap Proj Release — $278,414,554

Vendor Invoice — -$95,430,835

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

Contracts billed under

4600017462 — $43,517,081

4600014934 — $30,853,257

4600013856 — $27,576,629

4600018181 — $25,413,038

4600016965 — $22,023,362

4600016169 — $21,596,699

4600014347 — $14,905,674

4600016517 — $13,311,380

4600016281 — $12,683,272

4600014935 — $11,349,524

4600014283 — $9,013,316

4600017230 — $8,536,265

The 12 largest of 21 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.