Procurement Spend by Category Q1 2018

Spending records

Payment date^*	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Mar 2018	Support Services (Advertising, Finance, HR, Insurance, Professional Services)	Purchase Order	€3,264,242.00
31 Mar 2018	Safety, Network Integrity, Energy & Facilities Management	Purchase Order	€1,740,187.00
31 Mar 2018	Pipelines - Materials & Maintenance	Purchase Order	€15,666,233.00
31 Mar 2018	Meters - Materials & Maintenance	Purchase Order	€3,837,887.00
31 Mar 2018	IT	Purchase Order	€2,520,688.00
31 Mar 2018	Fees & Charges to Commercial & Environmental Regulators	Purchase Order	€542,252.00
31 Mar 2018	Customer Services	Purchase Order	€7,301,824.00
31 Mar 2018	Control & Instrumentation	Purchase Order	€761,425.00
31 Mar 2018	Compressors - Materials & Maintenance	Purchase Order	€7,998,936.00
31 Mar 2018	Above Ground Installations - Materials & Maintenance	Purchase Order	€3,044,288.00

^* 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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