I've been playing around with purchasing information from NJ's Open Data portal (https://data.nj.gov/). These are things that caught my eye as I was looking over the data - I have no idea what most of this means.
From the portal:
Purchasing represents the procurement from vendors of goods and services that are recorded in the State’s purchasing system and for which payment must be made amounts already spent, amounts the State is obligated to pay to a specific vendor as a result of an order or contract, and amounts that are set aside for imminent purchases are included in purchasing data.
There about 500,000 purchases spanning 12 years.
Below is the output of simple keyword searches over the contents of the purchasing CSV data. The goal is to survey the data, the results are meant to be innacurate for the sake of speed of discovery. I added the header row and removed unrelated lines for clarity. This is pretty quick and dirty - it could be formatted better.
Without more context it's impossible to