Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q2 2016

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
30 Jun 2016	201604 200006686 Furniture Division OPW	Replace Carpets in various offices for the CSSO Office	Purchase Order	€30,520
30 Jun 2016	201606 200006836 LexisNexis Butterworths	Office	Purchase Order	€24,622
30 Jun 2016	201606 200006838 Thomson Reuters (Professional UK Ltd)	Office	Purchase Order	€31,145
30 Jun 2016	201606 200006837 DX Network Services Ireland Ltd	CSSO Office	Purchase Order	€34,199

^* 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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