Paid by the city

SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE CO

The city's published checkbook records $30,003,419 paid to SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE CO across 3,091 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$4,138,937

FY2019$3,510,900

FY2020$3,226,171

FY2021$4,054,499

FY2022$5,686,466

FY2023$3,200,571

FY2024$2,464,625

FY2025$2,222,043

FY2026$1,499,207

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$29,014,389

Library$859,432

Houston Public Works - HPW$129,598

How these purchases were made

PO Contract Release — $25,247,406

Service Rel. Order — $4,545,149

PO One-time — $117,528

Vendor Invoice — $81,266

PO Sole Source — $12,069

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

Contracts billed under

4600015169 — $12,913,283

4600017818 — $5,248,914

4600012442 — $4,686,783

4600014107 — $2,917,095

4600015989 — $1,767,595

4600015319 — $1,255,253

4600013839 — $589,311

4600014535 — $352,251

4600014108 — $61,946

4600009429 — $124

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.