Paid by the city

MD HELICOPTERS INC

The city's published checkbook records $4,587,693 paid to MD HELICOPTERS INC across 73 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$95,802

FY2019$84,912

FY2020$82,566

FY2021$66,934

FY2022$500,590

FY2023$71,526

FY2024$1,034,190

FY2025$911,118

FY2026$1,740,055

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 Police Department-HPD$4,496,381

Mayor's Office$91,312

How these purchases were made

PO Sole Source — $3,436,879

PO One-time — $705,899

Service Rel. Order — $279,390

PO Contract Release — $165,527

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded: 75% ran through sole-source purchasing, meaning the city did not take competing bids for it. The city publishes the route, not the reason for it.

Contract billed under

4600016834 — $444,917

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.