Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q1 2016

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Mar 2016	Kiltale Ltd T/A Ashley Motors	Purchase of vehicle for Geological Survey of Ireland 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	€33,550.00
31 Mar 2016	Analysys Mason	Technical Advisory Services in relation to the implementation of the National Broadband Plan.	Purchase Order	€95,821.82
31 Mar 2016	Analysys Mason	Technical Advisory Services in relation to the implementation of the National Broadband Plan	Purchase Order	€111,086.97
31 Mar 2016	IRENA (International	National Contribution for 2016 Renewable Energy Agency)	Purchase Order	€93,723.34
31 Mar 2016	Ramboll Environ UK Ltd	Provision of services pursuant to environmental consultancy services relating to the Corrib Gasfield project	Purchase Order	€51,660.75
31 Mar 2016	Ramboll Environ UK Ltd	Provision of services pursuant to environmental consultancy services relating to the Corrib Gasfield project	Purchase Order	€24,883.65
31 Mar 2016	DNM Technology	Hardware Purchase – 4 servers	Purchase Order	€23,963.89
31 Mar 2016	Indecon	Macro-economic research to determine the characteristics of Ireland’s digital economy.	Purchase Order	€30,368.70
31 Mar 2016	Indecon	Macro-economic research to determine the characteristics of Ireland’s digital economy.	Purchase Order	€30,368.70
31 Mar 2016	Energy Charter Secretariat	National Contribution 2016	Purchase Order	€31,007.75
31 Mar 2016	KPMG	Provision of financial and procurement advice and services in relation to the implementation of the National Broadband Plan.	Purchase Order	€60,718.95
31 Mar 2016	KPMG	Provision of financial and procurement advice and services in relation to the implementation of the National Broadband Plan.	Purchase Order	€38,219.18
31 Mar 2016	University College Cork	Observe Project - Provision of aerial surveys of cetaceans and seabirds in Irish offshore waters	Purchase Order	€235,517.94
31 Mar 2016	Radio Telefís Éireann	Communication Specialist for work on the Department’s Digital Communications Strategy	Purchase Order	€31,792.94
31 Mar 2016	Ordnance Survey Ireland Ltd	Mapping Agreement	Purchase Order	€134,526.33
31 Mar 2016	Micromail	Software	Purchase Order	€22,405.68
31 Mar 2016	International	Annual contribution by Ireland Telecommunications Union	Purchase Order	€577,927.13
31 Mar 2016	David Fox Associates	Consultant Petroleum Engineering Services	Purchase Order	€21,965.00

^* 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.

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