RSA Q4 2012 Purchase Orders Over €20K

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Kind	Amount
22 Oct 2012	Royal College of Physicians of Ireland	Purchase Order	€142,500.00
22 Oct 2012	Competence Assurance Solutions Ltd	Purchase Order	€42,500.00
17 Oct 2012	Eircom Ltd	Purchase Order	€30,606.76
15 Oct 2012	Nationwide Data Collection	Purchase Order	€53,500.00
12 Oct 2012	Farrell Brothers (Ardee) Ltd	Purchase Order	€32,526.00
11 Oct 2012	Irish International Production Ltd	Purchase Order	€126,003.00
09 Oct 2012	Willis Risk Services Ltd	Purchase Order	€48,812.51
04 Oct 2012	Portwest Ltd	Purchase Order	€45,000.00
04 Oct 2012	Vulcan Solutions	Purchase Order	€74,507.42
03 Oct 2012	Competence Assurance Solutions Ltd	Purchase Order	€45,144.85
03 Oct 2012	Competence Assurance Solutions Ltd	Purchase Order	€22,799.43
02 Oct 2012	Pricewaterhousecoopers UK	Purchase Order	€152,985.39
01 Oct 2012	Mc Cann Fitzgerald	Purchase Order	€22,374.59

^* 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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