Payments Over €20,000 Q4 2022

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2022	Young Advertising Ltd t/a Havas Dublin	Creating Our Future - Public Consultancy Programme	Purchase Order	€20,275.00
31 Dec 2022	Real Event Management T/a Real Nation	Smart Futures Consultancy	Purchase Order	€24,241.00
31 Dec 2022	Bid and Tender Management Services Ltd	Procurement Consultancy	Purchase Order	€24,844.00
31 Dec 2022	Nesta	Staff Training	Purchase Order	€25,000.00
31 Dec 2022	Micromail	Licensing	Purchase Order	€27,347.00
31 Dec 2022	Evelyn Partners (Ireland) Limited	Consultancy Services	Purchase Order	€27,643.00
31 Dec 2022	Datapac Ltd	Hardware	Purchase Order	€29,179.00
31 Dec 2022	Praesta Ireland Ltd	Executive Coaching	Purchase Order	€30,135.00
31 Dec 2022	Enterprise Ireland	Licensing	Purchase Order	€32,135.00
31 Dec 2022	Jigsaw Management Limited	Event Management Services	Purchase Order	€33,939.00
31 Dec 2022	Club Travel	SFI Travel Costs	Purchase Order	€37,244.00
31 Dec 2022	The Royal Society	Programme Administration Costs	Purchase Order	€53,380.00
31 Dec 2022	Mazars	Consultancy and Internal Audit Services	Purchase Order	€53,933.00
31 Dec 2022	Walk The Plank LTD	Science Week Event	Purchase Order	€58,860.00
31 Dec 2022	Smartsimple Software (Ireland) Ltd.	Smart Simple resource	Purchase Order	€59,870.00
31 Dec 2022	Brightwater Selection (Ireland) Ltd	Recruitment Agency Costs	Purchase Order	€61,226.00
31 Dec 2022	Praesto Consulting Limited IE	IT Software Licences	Purchase Order	€63,124.00
31 Dec 2022	The Irish Times Ltd	Media Partnership	Purchase Order	€63,449.00
31 Dec 2022	Lex Consultancy	Recruitment Agency Costs	Purchase Order	€66,082.00
31 Dec 2022	Silicon Republic Knowledge & Events Management	Media Partnership	Purchase Order	€70,110.00
31 Dec 2022	NUI Maynooth (t/a Maynooth University)	DG Salary and Pension Recharge	Purchase Order	€79,216.00
31 Dec 2022	Elsevier Ltd	Memberships and Subscriptions	Purchase Order	€81,969.00
31 Dec 2022	Enovation Solutions Ltd	LMS Learning System Platform	Purchase Order	€121,108.00
31 Dec 2022	Power Design	Design and Print services	Purchase Order	€125,879.00
31 Dec 2022	Dublin City University DSE	DCU Intern Placements	Purchase Order	€130,851.00
31 Dec 2022	H2 Learning Limited	Education Specialist - SFI Discover Primary Science & Maths programmes	Purchase Order	€138,535.00
31 Dec 2022	Drury Communications LTD	PR Costs, cost charges of costs relating to Communications Support relating to the ‘National Challenge Fund’ and ‘Creating our Future’ campaigns, Training and Photography	Purchase Order	€432,036.00
31 Dec 2022	IDA Ireland	Rent, Rates, Service Charge & Miscellaneous Charges for Three Park Place	Purchase Order	€603,925.00

^* 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.

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