Paid by the city

PHOENIX BUSINESS INC

The city's published checkbook records $4,172,099 paid to PHOENIX BUSINESS INC across 337 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$1,239,107

FY2019$1,114,277

FY2020$85,765

FY2021—

FY2022$320,225

FY2023$433,875

FY2024$298,200

FY2025$365,125

FY2026$315,525

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 Information Tech Svcs$3,973,647

Finance$123,390

Human Resources Dept.$33,822

Houston Public Works - HPW$29,240

Citywide General Government$12,000

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $3,533,130

PO Contract Release — $554,063

PO One-time — $49,500

PO Emergency — $34,700

Vendor Invoice — $706

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded: 1% was bought under emergency procurement rules. The city publishes the route, not the reason for it.

Contracts billed under

4600010159 — $2,316,583

4600015374 — $1,539,660

4600018503 — $182,000

4600019034 — $83,650

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.