Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q1 2018

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Mar 2018	201802 200008615 Vodafone	Mobile phone service	Purchase Order	€49,997.55
31 Mar 2018	201802 200008611 Eir	Landline phone service	Purchase Order	€38,001.14
31 Mar 2018	201802 200008587 BT	Broadband service	Purchase Order	€22,000.11
31 Mar 2018	201802 200008609 Dublin Bus	Travel Pass Scheme	Purchase Order	€22,000.00
31 Mar 2018	201801 200008479 Energia	Electricity supply	Purchase Order	€89,997.44
31 Mar 2018	201801 200008511 Eir	Agency Staff 2018	Purchase Order	€72,288.00
31 Mar 2018	201801 200008516 Accent Solutions	Cleaning Service 2018	Purchase Order	€71,883.62
31 Mar 2018	201801 200008512 First Direct Courier Co.	Courier service	Purchase Order	€34,999.92
31 Mar 2018	201801 200008472 Lynk	Taxi service	Purchase Order	€30,000.00
31 Mar 2018	201801 200008513 Bloomsbury Professional	Online legal information service 2018‐2019	Purchase Order	€27,357.00
31 Mar 2018	201801 200008471 Xerox IBS Ltd	Photocopier meterage charge	Purchase Order	€25,253.51

^* 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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