Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q4 2016

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2016	201612 200007349 Lynk	Taxi Service for the CSSO Office	Purchase Order	€30,000.00
31 Dec 2016	201612 200007348 Irish Business Systems (Irl) Ltd.	Photocopying ‐ Meterage Charges	Purchase Order	€25,000.00
31 Dec 2016	201612 200007319 Dell Computer	PowerEdge ‐ Development and Configuration	Purchase Order	€55,878.00
31 Dec 2016	201612 200007301 Bytes Software Services Ltd.	Microsoft Windows 2016 Data	Purchase Order	€49,888.52
31 Dec 2016	201611 200007276 Iarnrod Eireann	2016 Travel Pass Tickets for staff in the CSSO ‐ 21 Tickets	Purchase Order	€45,530.00
31 Dec 2016	201611 200007268 National Shared Services Office IFT	Computer Software ‐ Peoplepoint Service Charge 2016	Purchase Order	€39,398.45
31 Dec 2016	201611 200007256 Insight Data Technologies Limited	Office Pro Plus 2016	Purchase Order	€98,627.20
31 Dec 2016	201611 200007230 Thomson, Round Hall	Westlaw ‐ Subscription to Library Data Bases for the CSSO Office	Purchase Order	€25,587.00

^* 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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