Payments over €20,000 Q1 2021

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Mar 2021	UNIT4 Business Software (Ireland) Limited	Software Maintenance Contract	Purchase Order	€393,371.42
31 Mar 2021	Unit 4 Business Software UK	Software Implementation & Support	Purchase Order	€162,202.89
31 Mar 2021	The Irish Times	Library resources	Purchase Order	€38,150.00
31 Mar 2021	Submit Software Solutions Ltd	Contracted Software Development	Purchase Order	€61,500.00
31 Mar 2021	Provident CRM	Contracted Software Development	Purchase Order	€131,955.84
31 Mar 2021	Oglivy & Mather Ltd	Advertising Costs	Purchase Order	€71,124.41
31 Mar 2021	Oglivy & Mather Ltd	Advertising Costs	Purchase Order	€24,200.00
31 Mar 2021	Oglivy & Mather Ltd	Advertising Costs	Purchase Order	€34,000.00
31 Mar 2021	Micromail Ltd	Licence Fees	Purchase Order	€92,504.31
31 Mar 2021	MEC Ireland Ltd	Advertising Costs	Purchase Order	€55,575.26
31 Mar 2021	Mako Data Limited	Professional/Licence Fees	Purchase Order	€69,696.00
31 Mar 2021	Mako Data Limited	Software Maintenance Contract	Purchase Order	€372,031.56
31 Mar 2021	Irish Public Bodies Mutual Insurances Ltd	Insurance	Purchase Order	€49,942.38
31 Mar 2021	Innovative Interfaces Inc. (US)	Software Implementation & Support	Purchase Order	€104,806.25
31 Mar 2021	Grant Thorton Consulting Ltd	Consultancy Services	Purchase Order	€37,510.00
31 Mar 2021	GIY Ireland Ltd	Distribute Library Funding	Purchase Order	€405,000.00
31 Mar 2021	Exigent Networks	Non Capital ICT Equipment	Purchase Order	€30,625.75
31 Mar 2021	Exigent Networks	Software Maintenance Contract	Purchase Order	€26,300.79
31 Mar 2021	ESP Technologies	Contracted Software Development	Purchase Order	€314,866.73
31 Mar 2021	Core International	Software Implementation & Support	Purchase Order	€42,834.00
31 Mar 2021	Core International	Software Maintenance Contract	Purchase Order	€2,444,558.89
31 Mar 2021	Core International	Software Implementation & Support	Purchase Order	€74,342.40
31 Mar 2021	Bolinda UK Ltd	Library resources	Purchase Order	€64,409.03
31 Mar 2021	Bolinda UK Ltd	Library resources	Purchase Order	€130,039.21

^* 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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