Paid by the city

WORKQUEST

The city's published checkbook records $64,773,361 paid to WORKQUEST across 9,524 payment lines, from FY2018 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$6,533,521

FY2019$6,376,839

FY2020$6,831,803

FY2021$7,499,155

FY2022$6,423,179

FY2023$6,214,823

FY2024$7,975,358

FY2025$8,091,700

FY2026$7,496,148

FY2027$1,330,835

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$63,978,603

General Services Department$393,944

Parks & Recreation$348,039

Dept of Neighborhoods (DON)$52,775

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $64,362,024

PO Contract Release — $467,456

PO One-time — $169,134

PO Interlocal — $1,507

Vendor Invoice — -$226,758

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

Contracts billed under

4600016385 — $20,159,610

4600015445 — $10,398,218

4600012938 — $9,536,075

4600012124 — $7,038,404

4600017457 — $6,434,948

4600015522 — $3,691,031

4600014130 — $3,075,792

4600012140 — $2,793,950

4600017550 — $992,433

4600019409 — $449,479

4600017428 — $264,638

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.