Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q3 2013

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
30 Sep 2013	Micromail	IT Software 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	€27,266.81
30 Sep 2013	Det Norske Veritas	Specialist Engineering advice relating to offshore drilling	Purchase Order	€42,723.94
30 Sep 2013	David Fox Associates	Petroleum Engineering advisory services	Purchase Order	€21,617.25
30 Sep 2013	CDM Smith Ireland Ltd T/A CDM	Environmental monitoring at former mining areas of Silvermines, Co Tipperary and Avoca, Co Wicklow	Purchase Order	€45,419.45
30 Sep 2013	Activation Laboratories Ltd T/A	Sample analysis - ACTLABS Tellus Border Project	Purchase Order	€43,304.61
30 Sep 2013	Virtalis Limited	IT Software	Purchase Order	€30,506.37
30 Sep 2013	RBR Europe Limited	Equipment - Infomar Project ( new SEASPY2 magnetometer for the RVKeary) Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources	Purchase Order	€39,047.58
30 Sep 2013	Kongsberg Maritime Ltd	IT Hardware (A new EM2040 Multibeam system for the RV Keary)	Purchase Order	€202,433.40
30 Sep 2013	Survey Instrument Services	Equipment - Infomar Project (2 Leica 500 systems traded-in for 2 new GS10 systems)	Purchase Order	€36,592.50
30 Sep 2013	SLR Consulting ( Ireland Ltd	Consultancy on Shallow Geothermal Energy Resource Project	Purchase Order	€24,600.00
30 Sep 2013	Trinity College Dublin	Geohazards (Landslide Susceptibility). Methodology trial in Mayo and Kerry.	Purchase Order	€22,893.25
30 Sep 2013	Queens University Belfast	Griffith Awards - Research into Poorly Productive Groundwater Aquifers	Purchase Order	€207,141.51
30 Sep 2013	Department of Foreign Affairs	State Membership Fee for OECD/IEA programme	Purchase Order	€102,053.05
30 Sep 2013	Economic and Social Research Institute	Contribution to Research Programme	Purchase Order	€75,000.00
30 Sep 2013	Banqueting Food Systems Ltd T/A With	Provision of catering Taste services at Digital Assembly 2013 Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources	Purchase Order	€24,540.99
30 Sep 2013	Observe Outside Broadcasting Ltd	Provision of outside broadcasting facilities at Digital Assembly 2013	Purchase Order	€125,460.00
30 Sep 2013	PRISA Technologies Ltd T/A Prisa	Provision of technical Consulting and economic advice on planning for implementation of national broadband plan	Purchase Order	€28,892.70
30 Sep 2013	PRISA Technologies Ltd T/A Prisa	Provision of technical Consulting and economic advice on planning for implementation of national broadband plan	Purchase Order	€44,501.40
30 Sep 2013	PRISA Technologies Ltd T/A Prisa	Provision of technical Consulting and economic advice on planning for implementation of national broadband plan	Purchase Order	€44,501.40
30 Sep 2013	HEAnet Ltd	Schools Broadband Programme	Purchase Order	€1,963,561.68

^* Payment date may be the end of the reporting quarter when the entity does not publish an exact date.

How to read these figures

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