City spending

General Services Department

The city's published checkbook records $1,289,484,268 paid out under this department across 127,678 payment lines and 460 named vendors, FY2018–FY2026.

Department name as the city's finance system records it. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2026 means July 2025 through June 2026.

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

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 460)

RELIANT ENERGY RETAIL SERVICES LLC$800,408,083

TDINDUSTRIES$64,182,469

SOLAIREHOLMAN 1 LLC$45,511,398

UNIVERSAL PROTECTION SERVICE$42,439,933

COKINOS ENERGY LLC$31,648,707

Symmetry Energy SolutionsLLC$26,100,998

AMBASSADOR SERVICES LLC$26,015,944

STAR SERVICE INC OF NEW ORLEANS$23,578,265

MCLEMORE BUILDING MAINTENANCE INC.$23,298,646

STAR SERVICES INC$12,865,530

FIRETROL PROTECTION SYSTEMS INC$8,630,548

STAR SERVICE INC$8,125,866

NORRED AND ASSOCIATES INC$7,854,443

HORIZON INTERNATIONAL GROUP LLC$6,571,809

DIGITAL AIR CONTROL INC$6,178,359

D7 ROOFING & METAL LLC$5,983,644

THE BRANDT COMPANIES LLC$5,953,729

DRA FLAG FUND VIII LLC$5,585,173

AGGREKO LLC$5,078,491

BROWN AND ROOT INDUSTRIAL SERVICES$5,077,061

HOUSING AND LAND DEVELOPMENT CORP$5,013,189

BFI WASTE SERVICES OF TX LP$4,958,036

TIMES CONSTRUCTION INC$4,685,393

AMERICAN MECHANICAL SERVICES LLP$4,635,065

ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE INC.$3,493,938

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 — $617,266,200 across FY2018–FY2026, 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 ↗.