Payments Over €20,000 Q4 2017

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2017	Great Place to Work (Ireland) Ltd	HR Services	Purchase Order	€20,188.00
31 Dec 2017	Perception Consulting Ltd	Computer Software	Purchase Order	€20,395.40
31 Dec 2017	McCann Fitzgerald Solicitors	Legal Services	Purchase Order	€21,969.39
31 Dec 2017	LHM Casey McGrath	Audit Services	Purchase Order	€22,040.20
31 Dec 2017	BDO	Audit Services	Purchase Order	€24,282.25
31 Dec 2017	Nature Publishing Group	Advertising	Purchase Order	€25,651.64
31 Dec 2017	Mace (Ireland) Ltd	Marketing Supports	Purchase Order	€26,351.52
31 Dec 2017	Mazars	Audit Services	Purchase Order	€26,780.00
31 Dec 2017	Power Design	Marketing Supports	Purchase Order	€27,918.80
31 Dec 2017	Cosmos Education Ltd BlackRock Castle Obs.	Marketing Supports	Purchase Order	€27,982.50
31 Dec 2017	Science Europe C/o FWO	Memberships & Subscriptions	Purchase Order	€29,079.03
31 Dec 2017	Cork Institute of Technology	Partnership Space Summer School	Purchase Order	€30,000.00
31 Dec 2017	Wide Eye Media	Smart Futures STEM Careers Campaign	Purchase Order	€30,750.00
31 Dec 2017	Irish Universities Association - IUA	Research Integrity Training	Purchase Order	€31,034.00
31 Dec 2017	Micahel Hallissy & John Hurley T/a H2	Educational Services	Purchase Order	€31,389.50
31 Dec 2017	IDA Ireland	Rent, Rates	Purchase Order	€33,736.00
31 Dec 2017	LHM Casey McGrath	Audit Services	Purchase Order	€36,284.84
31 Dec 2017	Michael Hallissy & John Hurley T/a H2	Educational Services	Purchase Order	€37,464.67
31 Dec 2017	Jigsaw Management Limited	Event Management	Purchase Order	€40,240.14
31 Dec 2017	Drury (Porter Novelli)	Science Week Advertising	Purchase Order	€42,773.14
31 Dec 2017	Drury (Porter Novelli)	Smart Futures STEM Careers Campaign	Purchase Order	€43,000.00
31 Dec 2017	Dublin City University DSE	Internships	Purchase Order	€43,705.82
31 Dec 2017	Media Central Ltd	Partnerships	Purchase Order	€44,280.00
31 Dec 2017	The Royal Society	Programme Cost Share	Purchase Order	€47,120.42
31 Dec 2017	Elsevier Ltd	Memberships & Subscriptions	Purchase Order	€47,295.00
31 Dec 2017		Silicon Republic Knowledge & Events Managmnt 55,350.00 Partnerships & InspireFest	Purchase Order	€14,853.00
31 Dec 2017	Smartsimple Software (Ireland) Ltd.	Software Maintenance	Purchase Order	€61,443.42
31 Dec 2017	The Irish Times Ltd	Partnerships	Purchase Order	€61,500.00
31 Dec 2017	Wide Eye Media	Smart Futures STEM Careers Campaign	Purchase Order	€61,500.00
31 Dec 2017	Datapac Ltd	Computer Equipment	Purchase Order	€69,166.30
31 Dec 2017	Drury (Porter Novelli)	Smart Futures Career Campaign	Purchase Order	€74,014.00
31 Dec 2017	Drury (Porter Novelli)	Smart Futures Career Campaign	Purchase Order	€74,513.52
31 Dec 2017	Drury (Porter Novelli)	Science Week 2017 & Communications Support	Purchase Order	€139,831.47
31 Dec 2017	IDA Ireland	Rent and Services Q4 2017	Purchase Order	€179,365.00
31 Dec 2017	BT Young Scientist of The Year Award	Payment Payment Sponsorship of EUCYS 2018	Purchase Order	€200,000.00

^* 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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