Paid by the city

PS LIGHTWAVE INC

The city's published checkbook records $13,270,492 paid to PS LIGHTWAVE INC across 1,899 payment lines, from FY2018 to FY2024.

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$2,751,193

FY2019$2,161,645

FY2020$1,302,847

FY2021$1,568,696

FY2022$2,065,921

FY2023$1,753,111

FY2024$1,667,079

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 Information Tech Svcs$12,748,469

Houston Airport System (HAS)$258,598

Houston Police Department-HPD$116,734

Houston Public Works - HPW$73,983

Houston Health Department$46,476

Library$26,010

Finance$222

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $12,993,702

PO Interlocal — $231,002

PO Contract Release — $28,706

PO One-time — $17,082

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

Contracts billed under

4600011954 — $5,979,305

4600015594 — $5,344,347

4600017501 — $1,662,010

4600017256 — $27,596

4600013966 — $8,040

4600017099 — $1,110

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.