Paid by the city

PERKINELMER HEALTH SCIENCES INC

The city's published checkbook records $6,065,036 paid to PERKINELMER HEALTH SCIENCES INC across 144 payment lines, from FY2018 to FY2023.

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$49,545

FY2019$49,565

FY2020$2,779

FY2021$2,254,496

FY2022$2,815,089

FY2023$893,562

FY2024—

FY2025—

FY2026—

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 Health Department$6,049,763

Houston Public Works - HPW$15,273

How these purchases were made

PO Emergency — $5,906,516

PO Sole Source — $146,427

PO One-time — $12,073

Vendor Invoice — $19

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 97% was bought under emergency procurement rules. The city publishes the route, not the reason for it.

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.