Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q3 2023

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
14 Sep 2023	Dell Ireland	IT - hardware for new staff	Purchase Order	€45,399.00
04 Sep 2023	Micromail	IT - Azure subscription and Zoom licences	Purchase Order	€31,689.00
04 Sep 2023	New Decade	Sponsorship of ’10 Things to Know About’ TV series - Phase 2	Purchase Order	€24,600.00
04 Sep 2023	Osborne	Temp agency staff cost	Purchase Order	€23,991.00
04 Sep 2023	Softcat Plc	IT - Sophos MDR licence agreement and managed service	Purchase Order	€60,686.00
10 Aug 2023	Alice PR and Events Limited	Communications, PR and Strategic Marketing - Springboard +	Purchase Order	€28,325.00
10 Aug 2023	New Decade	Sponsorship of ’10 Things to Know About’ TV series - Phase 1	Purchase Order	€24,600.00
10 Aug 2023	Comptroller and Auditor General	Audit Fees - Statutory Audit	Purchase Order	€46,800.00
03 Aug 2023	University of Galway	Review and Analysis of Sexual Violence and Harassment Surveys	Purchase Order	€28,334.00
28 Jul 2023	Curly Enterprises Limited - Karen Hand	Evaluation of anonymous reporting tool	Purchase Order	€20,600.00
21 Jul 2023	BDO Eaton Square Limited	IT - work on Stakeholder Engagement System	Purchase Order	€30,750.00
21 Jul 2023	Osborne	Temp agency staff cost	Purchase Order	€34,728.00
21 Jul 2023	Sysco Software Solutions	Financial Management System implementation	Purchase Order	€41,482.00
14 Jul 2023	Osborne	Temp agency staff cost	Purchase Order	€22,362.00
07 Jul 2023	BDO Eaton Square Limited	IT - contractual maintenance and support	Purchase Order	€59,963.00
07 Jul 2023	CommSec Communications & Security Ltd	IT - cyber security consultancy, checking and assessments	Purchase Order	€25,235.00
07 Jul 2023	Micromail	IT - Microsoft licences, Teamviewer, Acrobat and D365 subscriptions	Purchase Order	€43,046.00
07 Jul 2023	Osborne	Temp agency staff cost	Purchase Order	€23,336.00
07 Jul 2023	Advance HE	Delivery of the Athena SWAN Charter	Purchase Order	€80,000.00

^* 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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