Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q3 2015

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
30 Sep 2015	Sanders Geophysics	Airborne Geophysical Survey Services 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.  The report includes payments for goods or services and does not include grants-in-aid, reimbursements etc.	Purchase Order	€83,622.44
30 Sep 2015	Sanders Geophysics	Airborne Geophysical Survey Services	Purchase Order	€66,612.27
30 Sep 2015	Sanders Geophysics	Airborne Geophysical Survey Services	Purchase Order	€44,171.80
30 Sep 2015	Sanders Geophysics	Airborne Geophysical Survey Services	Purchase Order	€56,340.32
30 Sep 2015	Sanders Geophysics	Airborne Geophysical Survey Services	Purchase Order	€36,545.60
30 Sep 2015	Sanders Geophysics	Airborne Geophysical Survey Services	Purchase Order	€61,510.00
30 Sep 2015	Analysys Mason	Technical Advisory Services in relation to the implementation of the National Broadband Plan.	Purchase Order	€28,529.86
30 Sep 2015	Analysys Mason	Technical Advisory Services in relation to the implementation of the National Broadband Plan.	Purchase Order	€113,111.71
30 Sep 2015	CGG Airborne Survey (PTD) Ltd	Tellus North Midlands Survey	Purchase Order	€184,083.37
30 Sep 2015	Boart Longyear B.V	Drill Rig	Purchase Order	€122,688.33
30 Sep 2015	Mediavest Ltd	Advertising in relation to Tellus Project	Purchase Order	€20,962.55
30 Sep 2015	Prisa Technologies Ltd	Provision of technical advice in relation to the implementation of the National Broadband Plan	Purchase Order	€23,370.00
30 Sep 2015	Unit 4 Business Software	Annual Maintenance of the Department’s Financial Management System	Purchase Order	€37,472.71
30 Sep 2015	Chief State Solicitor’s Office	Provision of Legal Services	Purchase Order	€20,000.00
30 Sep 2015	Ramboll Environ UK Ltd	Irish Offshore Strategic Environmental Assessment 5	Purchase Order	€22,196.36
30 Sep 2015	ENI Ireland BV Branch	Seismic Study - Department’s contribution towards the cost of the joint DCENR-ENI Regional Seismic Survey	Purchase Order	€234,885.01
30 Sep 2015	ENI Ireland BV Branch	Seismic Study - Department’s contribution towards the cost of the joint DCENR-ENI Regional Seismic Survey	Purchase Order	€806,704.70
30 Sep 2015	Aquabroker Ltd	Annual Insurance Premium for 4 Research vessels	Purchase Order	€36,059.72
30 Sep 2015	HEAnet Ltd	Schools Broadband	Purchase Order	€787,838.81
30 Sep 2015	CDM Smith Ireland Ltd	Remediation Project – Avoca Mine Site	Purchase Order	€62,983.05
30 Sep 2015	CDM Smith Ireland Ltd	Environmental monitoring services at the former mining areas of Silvermines and Avoca	Purchase Order	€24,213.69
30 Sep 2015	Keane Offshore Integrity Ltd	Corrib Verification Process – Verification/Audit services	Purchase Order	€33,825.00
30 Sep 2015	Keane Offshore Integrity Ltd	Corrib Verification Process – Verification/Audit services	Purchase Order	€33,825.00
30 Sep 2015	An Post	Publicity mailings in relation to airborne geophysical surveys as part of the Tellus project	Purchase Order	€29,281.29
30 Sep 2015	PriceWaterHouseCoopers	Provision of strategic and economic advice and services in relation to the implementation of the National Broadband Plan.	Purchase Order	€363,387.17
30 Sep 2015	Department of Agriculture	Provision of managed print service by Food and the Marine Xerox under the IT shared services arrangement with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine	Purchase Order	€28,671.77
30 Sep 2015	Radio Telefís Éireann	Communication Specialist for work on the Department’s Digital Communications Strategy	Purchase Order	€31,680.36
30 Sep 2015	Mason, Hayes and Curran	Provision of legal advice in relation to the implementation of the National Broadband Plan.	Purchase Order	€28,897.95
30 Sep 2015	Mason, Hayes and Curran	Provision of legal advice in relation to the implementation of the National Broadband Plan.	Purchase Order	€30,845.87
30 Sep 2015	International Energy Forum	Contribution to International Energy Forum Secretariat	Purchase Order	€21,811.91
30 Sep 2015	Arthur Cox Solicitor	Provision of Legal Services relating to Corrib Operational Consents	Purchase Order	€116,238.44

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

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