Paid by the city

WEST PUBLISHING CORPORATION

The city's published checkbook records $1,052,002 paid to WEST PUBLISHING CORPORATION across 222 payment lines, from FY2020 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—

FY2020$6,480

FY2021$6,934

FY2022$69,445

FY2023$125,320

FY2024$1,478

FY2025$171,828

FY2026$568,268

FY2027$102,249

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

Legal Department$949,361

Houston Information Tech Svcs$69,248

Houston Public Works - HPW$15,837

Dept of Neighborhoods (DON)$13,414

Houston Police Department-HPD$4,142

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $949,305

PO Contract Release — $69,220

PO One-time — $22,769

PO Sole Source — $6,480

Vendor Invoice — $4,227

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded: 1% ran through sole-source purchasing, meaning the city did not take competing bids for it. The city publishes the route, not the reason for it.

Contracts billed under

4600017776 — $299,699

4600017182 — $283,950

4600017777 — $166,827

4600014784 — $109,309

4600014783 — $89,520

4600019030 — $69,220

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.