Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q4 2015

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2015	Economic and Social Research	Contribution to programme of research Institute in communications	Purchase Order	€75,000.00
31 Dec 2015	Department of Foreign Affairs	Expenditure Irish Missions Abroad	Purchase Order	€22,291.97
31 Dec 2015	Department of Foreign Affairs	Contribution Part II OECD programme IEA	Purchase Order	€100,235.70
31 Dec 2015	Indecon	Review of designation of events under Broadcasting Act 2009 – phase 2	Purchase Order	€37,223.43
31 Dec 2015	Indecon	Review of designation of events under Broadcasting Act 2009 – phase 1	Purchase Order	€37,223.43
31 Dec 2015	Indecon	Macro-economic research to determine the characteristics of Ireland’s digital economy	Purchase Order	€30,368.70
31 Dec 2015	Tobin Consulting Engineers	Consultancy – Groundwater Protection/Mapping.	Purchase Order	€23,062.50
31 Dec 2015	Precise Construction	Aerial Survey Equipment. Purchase of a Instruments Ltd t/a Korec high precision Trimble UX5, an unmanned aerial survey system.	Purchase Order	€58,421.31
31 Dec 2015	Applanix Ltd	Software/Hardware upgrade. RTK POS MV V5 SFF upgrade (surveying equipment).	Purchase Order	€28,079.79
31 Dec 2015	Applanix Ltd	Software – Maintenance and Warranty for 2017	Purchase Order	€29,868.80
31 Dec 2015	Applanix Ltd	Software – Maintenance and Warranty for 2016	Purchase Order	€29,858.80
31 Dec 2015	CDM Smith Ireland Ltd	Environmental monitoring services at the former mining areas of Silvermines and Avoca	Purchase Order	€24,659.69
31 Dec 2015	CDM Smith Ireland Ltd	Remediation Project – Avoca Mine Site	Purchase Order	€26,469.72
31 Dec 2015	CDM Smith Ireland Ltd	Environmental monitoring services at the former mining areas of Silvermines and Avoca	Purchase Order	€41,983.87
31 Dec 2015	CDM Smith Ireland Ltd	Remediation Project – Avoca Mine Site	Purchase Order	€74,950.94
31 Dec 2015	HEAnet Ltd	Schools 100Mbits/S Network	Purchase Order	€214,253.54
31 Dec 2015	HEAnet Ltd	Schools 100Mbits/S Network	Purchase Order	€556,430.93

^* 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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