Paid by the city

WEST PUBLISHING CORPORATION DBA

The city's published checkbook records $1,988,026 paid to WEST PUBLISHING CORPORATION DBA across 522 payment lines, from FY2018 to FY2024.

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$251,669

FY2019$225,944

FY2020$216,190

FY2021$245,060

FY2022$288,834

FY2023$347,722

FY2024$412,607

FY2025—

FY2026—

FY2027—

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$1,647,279

Houston Information Tech Svcs$340,747

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $1,955,282

Vendor Invoice — $32,744

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

Contracts billed under

4600014783 — $820,973

4600017182 — $399,368

4600014784 — $238,110

4600017776 — $219,536

4600012332 — $146,924

4600017777 — $67,790

4600012336 — $62,582

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.