Paid by the city

VORTEX SERVICES LLC

The city's published checkbook records $26,186,330 paid to VORTEX SERVICES LLC across 908 payment lines, from FY2022 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—

FY2019—

FY2020—

FY2021—

FY2022$1,241,941

FY2023$1,878,902

FY2024$7,061,779

FY2025$8,209,595

FY2026$7,794,113

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$26,296,989

Houston Airport System (HAS)$6,809

Constant In and Out-$117,468

How these purchases were made

PO Cap Proj Release — $30,339,524

PO One-time — $6,809

Vendor Invoice — -$4,160,003

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

Contracts billed under

4600016846 — $5,873,393

4600018291 — $5,081,985

4600018817 — $4,992,499

4600017388 — $4,492,347

4600017154 — $3,526,923

4600017650 — $3,249,675

4600017685 — $3,122,701

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.