Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q4 2014

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2014	Capita Business Support	Design, implementation and Services Ireland Ltd management of the National Postcode System 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.	Purchase Order	€1,221,037.13
31 Dec 2014	Elsevier	Scientific Publications	Purchase Order	€23,808.11
31 Dec 2014	Gavin and Doherty	Landslide Susceptibility Study Geosolutions (Ltd)	Purchase Order	€20,787.00
31 Dec 2014	ENI Ireland BV Branch	Department’s contribution towards the cost of the joint DCENR-ENI Regional Seismic Survey	Purchase Order	€1,559,484.09
31 Dec 2014	ENI Ireland BV Branch	Department’s contribution towards the cost of the joint DCENR-ENI Regional Seismic Survey	Purchase Order	€1,372,195.65
31 Dec 2014	Indecon	Economic Analysis of the Advertising Market in Ireland	Purchase Order	€35,719.20
31 Dec 2014	PA Consulting Group	Technical advice and support services for implementation of the National Postcode System	Purchase Order	€32,103.00
31 Dec 2014	PA Consulting Group	Technical advice and support services for implementation of the National Postcode System	Purchase Order	€31,365.00
31 Dec 2014	KN Network Services	Diligence Assessment on Galway to Mayo Duct	Purchase Order	€88,375.50
31 Dec 2014	Diarmuid Rossa Phelan BL	Legal fees	Purchase Order	€24,600.00
31 Dec 2014	PWC	Capacity Review of the Department	Purchase Order	€24,600.00
31 Dec 2014	PWC	Capacity Review of the Department	Purchase Order	€57,199.92
31 Dec 2014	Raidió Teilifís Éireann	Communication Specialist for work on the Department’s Digital Communications Strategy	Purchase Order	€26,850.06
31 Dec 2014	Oracle	Software Licensing Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources	Purchase Order	€103,022.78
31 Dec 2014	Natural Environment Research	Tellus Boder Project (Interreg) Council Geochemical Analyses	Purchase Order	€27,962.28
31 Dec 2014	Natural Environment Research	Tellus Boder Project (Interreg) Council Geochemical Analyses	Purchase Order	€26,944.38
31 Dec 2014	Natural Environment Research	Tellus Boder Project (Interreg) Council Geochemical Analyses	Purchase Order	€26,944.38
31 Dec 2014	Natural Environment Research	Tellus Boder Project (Interreg) Council Geochemical Analyses	Purchase Order	€26,944.38
31 Dec 2014	Irish Business Systems Ltd T/A	Hardware, Licences and Support and IBS Warranty for Multifunction Devices	Purchase Order	€39,791.73
31 Dec 2014	David Fox Associates	Petroleum Engineer Services	Purchase Order	€21,498.32

^* 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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