Purchase Orders Over €20,000 Q4 2015

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2015	201512 200006396 Iarnrod Eireann	2016 Travel Pass Tickets for staff in the CSSO	Purchase Order	€45,420.00
31 Dec 2015	201512 200006420 Eircom (ICT)	Osmond House and Chancery Building for the CSSO	Purchase Order	€32,981.00
31 Dec 2015	201512 200006421 BT	the CSSO	Purchase Order	€32,214.68
31 Dec 2015	201512 200006425 First Direct Courier Co	Local & N ti	Purchase Order	€24,499.66
31 Dec 2015	201512 200006405 Thomson, Round Hall,	Subscription to Library Data Bases for the CSSO Office	Purchase Order	€24,330.00
31 Dec 2015	201512 200006428 Irish Business Systems (Irl)Ltd	Meterage Charges for Photocopiers for the CSSO Office	Purchase Order	€23,497.09
31 Dec 2015	201510 200006193 BT	Installation of new Telephone System for the CSSO Office	Purchase Order	€94,824.19

^* 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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