Paid by the city

MSC INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY

The city's published checkbook records $15,984,023 paid to MSC INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY across 1,849 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$293,750

FY2019$105,301

FY2020$15,905

FY2021$66,709

FY2022$29,499

FY2023$61,806

FY2024$2,985,923

FY2025$12,031,450

FY2026$393,680

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$15,132,647

Houston Airport System (HAS)$437,020

Houston Fire Department (HFD)$155,474

General Services Department$120,043

Fleet Management Department$38,614

Solid Waste Management$35,801

Admn. & Regulatory Affairs$24,193

Houston Health Department$24,038

Houston Police Department-HPD$16,193

How these purchases were made

PO Contract Release — $15,452,424

PO One-time — $392,743

PO MarketPlace Order — $88,024

PO Interlocal — $26,175

PO Emergency — $23,696

Vendor Invoice — $961

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

Contracts billed under

4600017989 — $15,345,480

4600012136 — $154,039

4600016678 — $43,896

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.