Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q4 2015

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2015	Analysys Mason Limited	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€28,305.99
31 Dec 2015	Mason Hayes & Curran	Legal Advice	Purchase Order	€30,269.32
31 Dec 2015	ODIN Consultants Ltd	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€30,763.64
31 Dec 2015	Plum Consulting LLP	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€31,740.00
31 Dec 2015	Iarnród Éireann	Annual Travel Tickets (recouped from Staff)	Purchase Order	€32,457.00
31 Dec 2015	Mason Hayes & Curran	Legal Advice	Purchase Order	€32,694.45
31 Dec 2015	William Fry	Legal Advice	Purchase Order	€32,985.41
31 Dec 2015	Abtran Ltd	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€36,344.04
31 Dec 2015	Abtran Ltd	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€36,344.04
31 Dec 2015	Abtran Ltd	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€37,007.50
31 Dec 2015	Isobar	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€40,205.63
31 Dec 2015	Advanced Wireless Technologies Group Ltd	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€45,743.52
31 Dec 2015	Mason Hayes & Curran	Legal Advice	Purchase Order	€53,807.24
31 Dec 2015	Cullen International SA	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€57,750.00
31 Dec 2015	Frontier Economics	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€58,926.23
31 Dec 2015	Red C Research & Marketing Ltd	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€59,882.55
31 Dec 2015	Oxera Consulting LLP	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€62,556.00
31 Dec 2015	ODIN Consultants Ltd	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€64,919.40
31 Dec 2015	ODIN Consultants Ltd	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€64,919.40
31 Dec 2015	ODIN Consultants Ltd	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€64,919.40
31 Dec 2015	Analysys Mason Limited	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€65,812.50
31 Dec 2015	TERA Consultants	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€66,000.00
31 Dec 2015	The Economic and Social Research Institute	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€75,000.00
31 Dec 2015	Softwareone Ireland	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€114,103.16
31 Dec 2015	MRBI Market Research Ltd	Professional Services	Purchase Order	€122,425.69
31 Dec 2015	Rohde & Schwartz UK Ltd	Technical Equipment	Purchase Order	€130,559.00
31 Dec 2015	Office of Public Works	Rent & Service Charges	Purchase Order	€298,535.12

^* 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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