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PALMER EVENTS CENTER PLUMBING AND RESTROOM UPGRADE - RE-BID

VELIZ COMPANY, LLC
also known as VELIZ CONSTRUCTION
Needs a closer lookStalled — no recent payments
Construction

This is a construction contract with VELIZ COMPANY, LLC to deliver “PALMER EVENTS CENTER PLUMBING AND RESTROOM UPGRADE - RE-BID”. The city authorized spending up to $4,022,347, and $2,465,528 has been paid so far (61% of the ceiling).

Authorized (spending ceiling)
$4,022,347
Ordered / committed
$4,022,347 (100%)
Actually paid
$2,465,528 (61%)
from 13 checks in the city checkbook
Contract record lists $1,440,028 in its delivery-order field — understates actual checks.
Timeline
May 3, 2023
Kicked off Dec 19, 2022 · last check Jul 9, 2025

Why this status?

  • Fully committed but $1,556,819 ordered is not yet paid — is the work being delivered?
  • No expiration date on record — timeline signals can't be computed.

These are transparent signals, not judgments. A large unspent balance may be a legitimate multi-year ceiling or indefinite-delivery contract.

Payments on this contract

13 checkbook lines totaling $2,465,528 are booked directly against this contract — this is the amount actually paid.
The contract’s own record lists $1,440,028 in its “delivery-order referenced” field — a $1,025,500 understatement. That field only counts payments made through delivery orders, so we treat the checkbook total above as the real amount paid.
Where the money came fromGeneral Capital (bonds) · 100%
General Capital (bonds) · GCP-Auditorium$2,465,528 (100%)

Funding source is read from the fund each check was drawn on. It tells you who is accountable: voters & Council for bond/general-capital money, ratepayers & utility commissions for enterprise money, Council for the General Fund.

What the money paid for
Plumbing$2,465,528 (100%)

Grouped from the city’s own line-item descriptions. Vague or generic labels are themselves a transparency signal worth questioning.

See all 13 individual checks
DateAmountProject / fundWhat forStatus
Jul 9, 2025$256,387Palmer Events Center RenovatnsGCP-AuditoriumPlumbingPaid
Apr 30, 2024$200,451Palmer Events Center RenovatnsGCP-AuditoriumPlumbingPaid
Apr 12, 2024$55,594Palmer Events Center RenovatnsGCP-AuditoriumPlumbingPaid
Mar 6, 2024$114,464Palmer Events Center RenovatnsGCP-AuditoriumPlumbingPaid
Feb 22, 2024$108,330Palmer Events Center RenovatnsGCP-AuditoriumPlumbingPaid
Jan 3, 2024$290,274Palmer Events Center RenovatnsGCP-AuditoriumPlumbingPaid
Oct 20, 2023$165,088Palmer Events Center RenovatnsGCP-AuditoriumPlumbingPaid
Aug 23, 2023$132,716Palmer Events Center RenovatnsGCP-AuditoriumPlumbingPaid
Jul 31, 2023$211,965Palmer Events Center RenovatnsGCP-AuditoriumPlumbingPaid
Jun 26, 2023$198,107Palmer Events Center RenovatnsGCP-AuditoriumPlumbingPaid
May 24, 2023$405,870Palmer Events Center RenovatnsGCP-AuditoriumPlumbingPaid
Apr 12, 2023$291,927Palmer Events Center RenovatnsGCP-AuditoriumPlumbingPaid
Dec 19, 2022$34,356Palmer Events Center RenovatnsGCP-AuditoriumPlumbingPaid

Linked via the contract number appearing as a payment’s source document (rf_doc_id = 22110200046) in the Austin checkbook. See all payments to this vendor →

Accountability

Administered by
Contract and Land Management Department
Delivered by (1 firm)
VELIZ COMPANY, LLC

We couldn’t automatically match this contract to a City Council vote (the voting-record dataset starts in 2023, and older or consent-agenda items may not match by name). Most contracts are approved collectively on the Council consent agenda — so accountability runs through the managing department above and the Council vote on the award date, not an individual sponsor.

Documents & oversight

Contract type
Direct contract — billed against this contract number.

Assessing delivery vs. commitment: Austin doesn’t publish structured project milestones, so we can’t auto-verify that the work matches the contract. What we can do is show what the money was invoiced for (above) and link the approved scope — then, where it matters, dispatch a Spotter to confirm the work on the ground. Contracts whose purpose is well-documented vs. vague is exactly the signal that tells us where to look first.

Source & provenance

Contract number 22110200046 (CT) · Department 6100 · Managed by Contract and Land Management Department · Competitive Acquisition
From snapshot 2026-07-28.