Payments or Purchase Orders Q1 2021

Spending records

Payment date^*	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Mar 2021	HR & Training	Purchase Order	€78,514.81
31 Mar 2021	Sludge & Waste Services	Purchase Order	€1,129,133.06
31 Mar 2021	ICT & Communications & Marketing & Legal	Purchase Order	€11,748,228.51
31 Mar 2021	Facilities Management & Offices Services	Purchase Order	€487,590.02
31 Mar 2021	Field Operations Support Services	Purchase Order	€2,595,991.49
31 Mar 2021	Customer Services Support	Purchase Order	€4,960,405.31
31 Mar 2021	Construction & Civil Work and Engineering Services	Purchase Order	€51,862,785.53
31 Mar 2021	Managed Services - SLA payments to LAs	Purchase Order	€72,593,675.58
31 Mar 2021	Utilities	Purchase Order	€18,610,311.34
31 Mar 2021	Regulatory Fees & Charges	Purchase Order	€2,885,935.00
31 Mar 2021	Environmental & Safety Services	Purchase Order	€80,830.93
31 Mar 2021	Managed Services - DBO Operations	Purchase Order	€18,735,935.11

^* 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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