Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q3 2021

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
24 Sep 2021	Crowe Advisory Ireland Ltd	the evaluation of the comparability of the Advanced Certificate and Higher Certificate Qualification Scoping study for a PATH reporting system	Purchase Order	€20,535.00
02 Sep 2021	Vidatum Technologies	Updates to and maintenance of the Springboard+ application management system and SkillsDirect system	Purchase Order	€25,369.00
01 Sep 2021	Bauer Media Audio Ireland	Radio advertising for Springboard+ and the Human Capital Initiative	Purchase Order	€42,115.00
03 Aug 2021	Sysco Software Solutions	Implementation and Annual costs of a new Financial Management System and Related Services	Purchase Order	€234,930.00
23 Jul 2021	Quality and Qualifications Ireland	Contribution to the cost of Research on	Purchase Order	€25,000.00
13 Jul 2021	Hartley People Ltd	science TV series "10 Things to Know About" Temp Agency Staff - SEO temp for period July 2021 to January 2022.	Purchase Order	€46,688.00
06 Jul 2021	New Decade	Sponsorship of RTÉ One’s flagship	Purchase Order	€49,200.00

^* 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.

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