Paid by the city

MIDWEST TAPE LLC

The city's published checkbook records $2,731,693 paid to MIDWEST TAPE LLC across 3,947 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$630,074

FY2019$201,698

FY2020$253,661

FY2021$240,445

FY2022$270,886

FY2023$304,237

FY2024$312,237

FY2025$284,553

FY2026$202,299

FY2027$31,603

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

Library$2,731,693

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $2,122,806

Vendor Invoice — $471,887

PO Emergency — $116,000

PO One-time — $11,000

PO Sole Source — $10,000

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded: 4% was bought under emergency procurement rules. The city publishes the route, not the reason for it.

Contracts billed under

4600007981 — $846,422

4600016432 — $759,617

4600016853 — $527,767

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.