Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q1 2015

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Mar 2015	Capita Business	Internal Audit Services Nov & Dec 2014	Purchase Order	€20,735.48
31 Mar 2015	MMS Medical	Supply of table and furniture for Children’s Detention Centre	Purchase Order	€20,959.20
31 Mar 2015	Carpet Express Ltd	Carpet for Mother & Baby Homes Commission	Purchase Order	€21,948.12
31 Mar 2015	Frank McGowan	Furniture for Children’s Detention Centre including WiFi	Purchase Order	€24,330.00
31 Mar 2015	BT Communications	Purchase, installation & configuration of Ireland Ltd unified Communications System in Mother & Baby Homes Commission	Purchase Order	€42,657.59
31 Mar 2015	Pobal	External Service Delivery re ABC Programme Apr-Jun 15	Purchase Order	€50,000.00
31 Mar 2015	Pobal	External Service Delivery re ABC 2015 Programme Jan-Mar 15	Purchase Order	€50,000.00
31 Mar 2015	Pobal	External Service Delivery re Learner Fund support services 2015	Purchase Order	€75,000.00
31 Mar 2015	Foroige	Children & young people’s participation	Purchase Order	€232,805.98
31 Mar 2015	Pobal	External Service Delivery re Childcare Jan – Mar 15	Purchase Order	€1,300,000.00

^* Payment date may be the end of the reporting quarter when the entity does not publish an exact date.

How to read these figures

These are reported values from published purchase order and payment records — not verified cash paid, and not total spending by this organisation. A row may be a purchase order, a payment, or another reported transaction; the source files often do not say which.

Coverage and quality vary. Some fields are blank, supplier names are free text (the same firm can appear under many labels), and descriptions are inconsistent rather than a controlled taxonomy. An amount alone says nothing about value for money and it may or may not include VAT.

Records are retrieved from each organisation’s published files such as spreadsheets, PDFs, and other formats of uneven quality. Extraction techniques (including automated parsing) can introduce gaps, misreads, or incomplete rows when source layout or quality is poor. Treat the data as a starting point for investigation, not a definitive ledger.

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