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STAPLES CONTRACT & COMMERCIAL INC

The city's published checkbook records $16,527,544 paid to STAPLES CONTRACT & COMMERCIAL INC across 78,343 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$1,233,024
FY2019$1,125,677
FY2020$1,293,361
FY2021$3,320,425
FY2022$1,969,396
FY2023$2,201,729
FY2024$2,407,342
FY2025$1,350,282
FY2026$1,626,308

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.

How these purchases were made

PO Contract Release$7,741,708

PO MarketPlace Order$6,401,493

PO Emergency$1,576,365

PO One-time$522,680

Vendor Invoice$204,112

PO Interlocal$81,182

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded: 10% was bought under emergency procurement rules. The city publishes the route, not the reason for it.

Contracts billed under

4600016189$8,942,170

4600013433$3,957,235

4600018999$1,355,095

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.
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