Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q1 2015

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Mar 2015	201503 200005919 Lynk	offices.	Purchase Order	€25,000.00
31 Mar 2015	201503 200005917 First Direct Courier Co	all of the CSSO offices	Purchase Order	€25,000.00
31 Mar 2015	201503 200005749 Bloomsbury Professional	Subscription)	Purchase Order	€27,695.00
31 Mar 2015	201502 200005676 Airtricity Ltd	Yearly supply of Gas for two CSSO offices	Purchase Order	€20,000.00
31 Mar 2015	201502 200005665 Vodafone	for CSSO staff members	Purchase Order	€25,000.00
31 Mar 2015	201502 200005664 Irish Business Systems (Irl)Ltd	photocopying equipment	Purchase Order	€25,000.00
31 Mar 2015	201501 200005663 Energia	Yearly supply of electricity for two CSSO offices	Purchase Order	€80,000.00
31 Mar 2015	201501 200005637 BT	offices	Purchase Order	€24,000.12

^* 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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