Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q2 2017

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
30 Jun 2017	201704 200007680 Vodafone	Monthly Phone Bills	Purchase Order	€49,999
30 Jun 2017	201705 200007801 LexisNexis	LexisLibrary service ‐ subscription period 18/6/17 ‐ 17/6/18	Purchase Order	€25,364
30 Jun 2017	201705 200007764 Eircom (ICT)	Eir Data Services	Purchase Order	€28,840
30 Jun 2017	201706 200007903 DX Network Services Ireland Ltd	Subscription Renewal for the DX Document Exchange Service	Purchase Order	€34,199
30 Jun 2017	201706 200007915 Office of Public Works	Upgrade of ICT Communications Room, Osmond House	Purchase Order	€71,145

^* 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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