City spending

General Services Department

The city's published checkbook records $1,334,837,461 paid out under this department across 133,305 payment lines and 468 named vendors, FY2018–FY2027.

Department name as the city's finance system records it. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2027 means July 2026 through June 2027.

By fiscal year

FY2018$130,350,084

FY2019$135,001,691

FY2020$132,836,818

FY2021$121,486,373

FY2022$132,500,103

FY2023$146,019,128

FY2024$152,319,597

FY2025$157,208,715

FY2026$181,761,759

FY2027$45,353,193

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.

Largest vendors (25 of 468)

RELIANT ENERGY RETAIL SERVICES LLC$832,678,225

TDINDUSTRIES$66,777,499

SOLAIREHOLMAN 1 LLC$46,058,101

UNIVERSAL PROTECTION SERVICE$43,188,894

COKINOS ENERGY LLC$32,638,495

AMBASSADOR SERVICES LLC$27,078,379

Symmetry Energy SolutionsLLC$26,100,998

STAR SERVICE INC OF NEW ORLEANS$24,903,454

MCLEMORE BUILDING MAINTENANCE INC.$23,338,263

STAR SERVICES INC$13,072,840

FIRETROL PROTECTION SYSTEMS INC$8,801,064

STAR SERVICE INC$8,125,866

NORRED AND ASSOCIATES INC$7,854,443

DIGITAL AIR CONTROL INC$7,107,571

HORIZON INTERNATIONAL GROUP LLC$6,577,278

D7 ROOFING & METAL LLC$6,331,691

THE BRANDT COMPANIES LLC$6,058,102

DRA FLAG FUND VIII LLC$5,585,173

AGGREKO LLC$5,266,474

BFI WASTE SERVICES OF TX LP$5,117,812

BROWN AND ROOT INDUSTRIAL SERVICES$5,080,604

HOUSING AND LAND DEVELOPMENT CORP$5,013,189

TIMES CONSTRUCTION INC$4,687,263

AMERICAN MECHANICAL SERVICES LLP$4,635,716

ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE INC.$3,494,636

What this does and doesn't show

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.
Some payments name no company: the city files them under "GENERAL ONE-TIME VENDOR" or a bare asterisk — $683,428,414 across FY2018–FY2027, about 1.2% of all payments. Much of that is properly private, like legal settlements and housing assistance paid to individuals. Those payments aren't listed as vendors here because there's no vendor to list.
A department total here is what moved through that department's books, not its budget. Funds it administers on someone else's behalf are included.

From the City of Houston's published checkbook ↗.