Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q2 2013

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
30 Jun 2013	The Minister for Foreign	Rent & Ancillary Charges Staff seconded Affairs to Dept of Foreign Affairs, Brussels Notes: Suppliers subject to Withholding Tax will have it deducted at point of payment which may decrease the amount actually paid to under €20,000. Purchase Orders are inclusive of VAT where appropriate.	Purchase Order	€25,165.00
30 Jun 2013	Capital Business Svs Ltd T/A	Audit Consultancy Capita Consulting	Purchase Order	€20,189.87
30 Jun 2013	An Post Geodirectory Ltd	Data services and licence fees	Purchase Order	€24,050.68
30 Jun 2013	Dell	IT Hardware	Purchase Order	€78,720.00
30 Jun 2013	Ordnance Survey Ireland	Mapping licences	Purchase Order	€269,053.89
30 Jun 2013	IHS Global Ltd	Geotechnical project to generate digital well log dataset for the Irish Continental Shelf	Purchase Order	€52,647.44
30 Jun 2013	AMEC Earth & Environmental	with state mining licences	Purchase Order	€20,449.12
30 Jun 2013	CDM Smith Ireland Ltd T/A	Environmental monitoring works at CDM former mines	Purchase Order	€52,016.06
30 Jun 2013	UCD Bursar´s Office	Research programme	Purchase Order	€20,000.00
30 Jun 2013	Paul Cunningham T/A Marine	installed ships generator and heater system for the RV Cosantoir Bradan	Purchase Order	€24,881.79
30 Jun 2013	PRICEWATERHOUSE	Economic evaluation of INFOMAR COOPERS	Purchase Order	€22,604.94
30 Jun 2013	Rappel Enterprises Ltd T/A	Yearly Repair and Maintenance to the RV Arklow Marine Services Keary to maintain the safety at sea standard of the vessel required for its inshore mapping remit	Purchase Order	€20,152.42
30 Jun 2013	Tobin Consulting Engineers	Consultants for implementation of a groundwater vulnerability Mapping Programme	Purchase Order	€63,037.50
30 Jun 2013	Indecon	Macro-economic Research	Purchase Order	€36,223.50
30 Jun 2013	PRISA Technologies Ltd T/A	Consultants on implementation of Prisa Consulting National Broadband Plan	Purchase Order	€44,501.40

^* 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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