Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q3 2014

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
30 Sep 2014	Capita Business Support	Design, implementation and Services Ireland Ltd management of the National Postcode System 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. Penalty Interest may be added at point of payment for late payments over 30 days (or whatever is agreed with the supplier) which will increase the payment.	Purchase Order	€1,221,037.13
30 Sep 2014	Elsevier	Scientific Publications	Purchase Order	€23,808.11
30 Sep 2014	Gavin and Doherty	Landslide Susceptibility Study Geosolutions (Ltd)	Purchase Order	€20,787.00
30 Sep 2014	ENI Ireland BV Branch	Department’s contribution towards the cost of the joint DCENR-ENI Regional Seismic Survey	Purchase Order	€1,559,484.09
30 Sep 2014	ENI Ireland BV Branch	Department’s contribution towards the cost of the joint DCENR-ENI Regional Seismic Survey	Purchase Order	€1,372,195.65
30 Sep 2014	Indecon	Economic Analysis of the Advertising Market in Ireland	Purchase Order	€35,719.20
30 Sep 2014	PA Consulting Group	Technical advice and support services for implementation of the National Postcode System	Purchase Order	€32,103.00
30 Sep 2014	PA Consulting Group	Technical advice and support services for implementation of the National Postcode System Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources	Purchase Order	€31,365.00
30 Sep 2014	KN Network Services	Diligence Assessment on Galway to Mayo Duct	Purchase Order	€88,375.50
30 Sep 2014	Diarmuid Rossa Phelan BL	Legal fees	Purchase Order	€24,600.00
30 Sep 2014	PWC	Capacity Review of the Department	Purchase Order	€24,600.00
30 Sep 2014	PWC	Capacity Review of the Department	Purchase Order	€57,199.92
30 Sep 2014	Raidió Teilifís Éireann	Payment in respect of seconded staff for work in relation to the redesign of the Department ‘s website	Purchase Order	€35,352.60
30 Sep 2014	Unit 4 Business Software	Software Licensing	Purchase Order	€38,781.47
30 Sep 2014	CDM Smith Ireland Ltd T/A	Avoca Mines Remediation Project CDM	Purchase Order	€57,282.33
30 Sep 2014	CDM Smith Ireland Ltd T/A	Avoca Mines Remediation Project CDM	Purchase Order	€80,028.72
30 Sep 2014	PRISA Technologies Ltd T/A	Provision of technical and economic Prisa Consulting advice on planning for implementation of National Broadband Plan	Purchase Order	€23,370.00
30 Sep 2014	HEAnet Ltd	100mbps to Post Primary Schools	Purchase Order	€335,838.41
30 Sep 2014	Aquabroker Limited	Insurance for 3 vessels used in Survey Operations (INFOMAR)	Purchase Order	€28,878.48
30 Sep 2014	Tom Browne	Vessel skipper for Survey Operations (INFOMAR)	Purchase Order	€21,094.50
30 Sep 2014	ISPSG Secretariat	Contribution to Irish Shelf Petroleum Studies Group	Purchase Order	€21,000.00
30 Sep 2014	National Environment	Laboratory Analyses – Tellus project Research Council	Purchase Order	€22,878.00

^* 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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