Paid by the city

SMITH & DEAN INC.

The city's published checkbook records $6,322,884 paid to SMITH & DEAN INC. across 1,958 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$536,368

FY2019$343,432

FY2020$359,014

FY2021$2,837,287

FY2022$1,275,097

FY2023$808,245

FY2024$163,441

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$3,320,304

Human Resources Dept.$2,876,759

Business Opportunity$108,600

Houston Police Department-HPD$10,147

Solid Waste Management$7,074

How these purchases were made

PO Emergency — $4,681,439

Service Rel. Order — $1,452,124

Vendor Invoice — $107,908

PO One-time — $81,413

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded: 74% was bought under emergency procurement rules. The city publishes the route, not the reason for it.

Contracts billed under

4600016221 — $2,104,774

4600012974 — $944,556

4600015757 — $507,568

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.