RSA Q2 2015 Purchase Orders Over €20K

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
30 Apr 2015	SGS Ireland Limited	Driving Licence Operations	Purchase Order	€513,432.00
29 Apr 2015	Competence Assurance Solutions Ltd	Driver Education	Purchase Order	€40,000.00
29 Apr 2015	Portwest Ltd	Road Safety	Purchase Order	€113,000.00
29 Apr 2015	Applus Car Testing Service Ltd	Road Safety	Purchase Order	€40,580.00
29 Apr 2015	Media Vest Ltd	Road Safety	Purchase Order	€32,438.00
28 Apr 2015	Gemalto Credit Card Systems Ireland Ltd	Driving Licence Operations	Purchase Order	€189,072.00
27 Apr 2015	Media Vest Ltd	Road Safety	Purchase Order	€32,466.00
27 Apr 2015	Aramark Workplace Solutions	Quality, Customer Care, Estate Managment	Purchase Order	€21,437.00
24 Apr 2015	Carr Communications Ltd	RTA Research	Purchase Order	€20,257.00
22 Apr 2015	Irish International Production Ltd	Road Safety	Purchase Order	€40,417.00
21 Apr 2015	Societe Generale de Surveillance SA	CVR Covis and Reporting	Purchase Order	€112,981.00
21 Apr 2015	Vulcan Solutions	ICT	Purchase Order	€40,531.00
17 Apr 2015	Abtran Limited	Driving Licence Operations	Purchase Order	€673,953.00
15 Apr 2015	Rational Commerce	ICT	Purchase Order	€53,320.00
14 Apr 2015	BV SA-Bureau Veritas SA	CVR Covis and Reporting	Purchase Order	€171,400.00
13 Apr 2015	Societe Generale de Surveillance SA	CVR Covis and Reporting	Purchase Order	€29,649.00
10 Apr 2015	Cosby Suppliers Ltd	Road Safety	Purchase Order	€38,659.00
07 Apr 2015	Abtran Limited	Driving Licence Operations	Purchase Order	€22,942.00
02 Apr 2015	Vodafone	ICT	Purchase Order	€36,500.00
02 Apr 2015	Vodafone	ICT	Purchase Order	€30,000.00
02 Apr 2015	Micromail Ltd	ICT	Purchase Order	€42,317.00

^* 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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