Federal contractor · HOUSTON, TX

CITY OF HOUSTON

CITY OF HOUSTON received $22.2K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (−53% vs FY2025). Since FY2023: $112.2K. Its largest customer was Food and Drug Administration ($22.2K). It also received $11.3M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$22.2K
New awards
3
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small businessGovernment entity
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 8KFY2023
  2. 35KFY2024
  3. 47KFY2025
  4. 22.2KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Food and Drug Administration$22.2K100%
    3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$22.2K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Harris County, TX$22.2K100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $22.2K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $22.2K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Food and Drug Administration$22.2K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT REIMBURSEMENT FOR TASK FORCE OVERTIME$40.1K
    Food and Drug Administration· Harris County, TX· Professional services· Sep 13, 2024 – Jun 15, 2026· 75F40124C00095
  2. HOUSTON POLICE DEPT. REIMBURSEMENT FOR TASK FORCE OVERTIME$25K
    Food and Drug Administration· Harris County, TX· Professional services· Sep 4, 2026 – Sep 4, 2026· 75F40126C00045
  3. HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT REIMBURSEMENT FOR TASK FORCE OVERTIME$22K
    Food and Drug Administration· Harris County, TX· Professional services· Aug 17, 2023 – Jun 17, 2026· 75F40123C00085

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

CITY OF HOUSTON received $11.3M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 22 actions (16 new awards), +57% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 16.068 · Cops Hiring Program ($6.3M).

Assistance · FY2026
$11.3M
New awards
16
Actions
22
Since FY2021
$78.5M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 7.7MFY2021
  2. 23MFY2022
  3. 16.8MFY2023
  4. 12.5MFY2024
  5. 7.2MFY2025
  6. 11.3MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$11.1M98%
  2. Direct payments$232K2.1%

Top programs

  1. 16.068 · Cops Hiring Program$6.3M55%
  2. 95.001 · High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program$4M35%
  3. 16.543 · Missing Children's Assistance$662.6K5.9%
  4. 21.016 · Equitable Sharing$232K2.1%
  5. 16.710 · Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants$175K1.5%
  6. 16.843 · Gulf States Regional Law Enforcement Technology Training and Technical Assistance Initiative-$3,2770.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. Offices, Boards and Divisions$6.4M57%
    Department of Justice
  2. Office of the National Drug Control Policy$4M35%
    Executive Office of the President
  3. Office of Justice Programs$659.3K5.8%
    Department of Justice
  4. Departmental Offices$232K2.1%
    Department of the Treasury

Largest awards

  1. THE FY25 COPS HIRING PROGRAM (CHP) PROVIDES FUNDING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO HIRE AND/OR REHIRE ADDITIONAL CAREER LAW ENFORCEMENT…$6.3M
    16.068 · Cops Hiring Program· Offices, Boards and Divisions· Project grant· Oct 10, 2025 – Oct 10, 2025· 15JCOPS25GG00848UHPR
  2. HIGH INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS HIDTA PROGRAM FISCAL YEAR FY 2025 GRANT AWARD$4M
    95.001 · High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program· Office of the National Drug Control Policy· Grant· May 23, 2025 – Mar 12, 2026· HID0925G0515
  3. HIGH INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS HIDTA PROGRAM FISCAL YEAR FY 2026 GRANT$3.8M
    95.001 · High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program· Office of the National Drug Control Policy· Grant· Jul 3, 2026 – Jul 3, 2026· HID0926G0871
  4. HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT GULF STATES TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE$2.7M
    16.843 · Gulf States Regional Law Enforcement Technology Training and Technical Assistance Initiative· Office of Justice Programs· Project grant· Nov 20, 2024 – Mar 17, 2026· 2020RZBX0021
  5. THE HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT, HOUSTON METRO INTERNET CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN TASK FORCE (HMICAC) WILL CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN, EXPAND, AND…$1.3M
    16.543 · Missing Children's Assistance· Office of Justice Programs· Cooperative agreement· Nov 1, 2024 – Dec 23, 2025· 15PJDP24GK04207MECP
  6. FY 21 PROSECUTING COLD CASES USING DNA$535K
    16.741 · Dna Backlog Reduction Program· Office of Justice Programs· Project grant· Dec 20, 2021 – Jan 14, 2026· 15PBJA21GG04364DNAX

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $516.9K (3 subawards)

1 prime

  1. GOVERNOR, TEXAS OFFICE OF THE$516.9K100%
    AUSTIN, TX · 3 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $630.5K paid out · $601.4K received
  • FY2022: $2.5M paid out · $467.1K received
  • FY2023: $1.4M paid out · $366.8K received
  • FY2024: $1.5M paid out · $248.3K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $408.5K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $516.9K received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

11 companies · $6.1M reported

  1. HARRIS COUNTY$4.2M
    HOUSTON, TX · 3 subawards
  2. SAFEWARE INC$334.1K
    LANHAM, MD · 1 subaward
  3. CDW GOVERNMENT LLC$325.1K
    VERNON HILLS, IL · 1 subaward

Primes that pay it

1 company · $2.6M reported

  1. GOVERNOR, TEXAS OFFICE OF THE$2.6M
    AUSTIN, TX · 28 subawards

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Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. TOWN OF HOPKINTON$67.8K+23% in FY2026
    HOPKINTON, RI · 65% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFood and Drug Administration · Justice, public order, and safety activities
  2. NORTH PROVIDENCE, TOWN OF$62K+79% in FY2026
    NORTH PROVIDENCE, RI · 59% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFood and Drug Administration · Justice, public order, and safety activities
  3. STATE POLICE, KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT OF$71.9K−119% in FY2026
    FRANKFORT, KY · 53% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFood and Drug Administration · Justice, public order, and safety activities

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.