Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q1 2013

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Mar 2013	Unit 4 Business Software	Notes: Suppliers subject to Withholding Tax will have it deducted at point of payment which may decrease the amount actually paid to under €20,000. Purchase Orders are inclusive of VAT where appropriate. Penalty Interest may be added at point of payment for late payments over 30 days (or whatever is agreed with the supplier) which will increase the payment. The report includes payments for goods or services and does not include grants-in-aid, reimbursements etc.	Purchase Order	€25,353.71
31 Mar 2013	PA Consulting Group	Implementation of National Postcodes System	Purchase Order	€86,390.28
31 Mar 2013	Aurum Exploration Ltd	Geological consultancy services	Purchase Order	€20,697.39
31 Mar 2013	Institut National Des Sciences De l´Univers	Ireland's contribution to the 2013 Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme	Purchase Order	€100,000.00
31 Mar 2013	ETSI	Ireland's annual contribution to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute	Purchase Order	€63,460.00
31 Mar 2013	PRICEWATERHOUSE COOPERS	Economic Evaluation of Informar	Purchase Order	€36,900.00
31 Mar 2013	ISPSG Secretariat	Department's contribution to the Irish Shelf Petroleum Study Group	Purchase Order	€21,000.00
31 Mar 2013	Oracle	Software licensing	Purchase Order	€57,765.97
31 Mar 2013	Oracle	Software licensing	Purchase Order	€59,019.47
31 Mar 2013	Natural Environment Research Council	Collaborative project signed under an MOU between the Geological Survey of Ireland and the British Geological Survey for scientific co-operation	Purchase Order	€123,000.00
31 Mar 2013	Int´l Telecommunications Union	Ireland's Annual Contribution share for 2013 to International Telecommunications Union	Purchase Order	€518,389.66
31 Mar 2013	ELSEVIER	Online access to various science journals	Purchase Order	€21,512.70
31 Mar 2013	Energy Charter Secretariat	Ireland's annual contribution to the Energy Charter Secretariat	Purchase Order	€34,790.00
31 Mar 2013	MMC Commercials	Vehichle puchase for Marine Projects	Purchase Order	€39,132.00
31 Mar 2013	Versata FZ - LLC	Software licensing	Purchase Order	€52,840.80
31 Mar 2013	Versata FZ - LLC	Software licensing	Purchase Order	€23,080.19
31 Mar 2013	Dell	Software licensing	Purchase Order	€26,748.44
31 Mar 2013	Natural Environment Research Council	Tellus Border Project (InterReg), Geochemical Analyses	Purchase Order	€293,109.00

^* 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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