Paid by the city

UNIVERSAL PROTECTION SERVICE

The city's published checkbook records $115,651,737 paid to UNIVERSAL PROTECTION SERVICE across 75,770 payment lines, from FY2019 to FY2027.

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 FY2027 means July 2026 through June 2027.

By fiscal year

FY2018—

FY2019$3,296,716

FY2020$9,224,427

FY2021$10,662,565

FY2022$11,115,057

FY2023$12,561,857

FY2024$17,487,283

FY2025$22,927,641

FY2026$22,828,856

FY2027$5,547,335

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

General Services Department$43,188,894

Houston Public Works - HPW$32,049,834

Houston Airport System (HAS)$20,341,276

Houston Health Department$10,573,330

Municipal Courts Department$5,871,668

Parks & Recreation$2,198,801

Library$522,757

Admn. & Regulatory Affairs$466,284

Solid Waste Management$291,895

Citywide General Government$129,121

Dept of Neighborhoods (DON)$16,593

Human Resources Dept.$1,284

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $115,020,504

PO Contract Release — $1,090,639

PO One-time — $23,099

Vendor Invoice — -$482,507

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

Contracts billed under

4600017488 — $52,781,316

4600015167 — $41,807,851

4600017999 — $20,384,634

4600017922 — $1,137,342

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–FY2027. 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.