Paid by the city

USGS NATIONAL CENTER MS 270

The city's published checkbook records $10,338,036 paid to USGS NATIONAL CENTER MS 270 across 72 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$1,192,859

FY2019$981,016

FY2020$1,157,482

FY2021$775,922

FY2022$1,354,161

FY2023$1,077,155

FY2024$1,127,990

FY2025$1,206,116

FY2026$1,465,335

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

Houston Public Works - HPW$10,338,036

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $10,337,678

Vendor Invoice — $357

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

Contracts billed under

4600015057 — $5,004,920

4600017865 — $3,649,083

4600014552 — $1,022,450

4600014223 — $511,225

4600018831 — $150,000

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.