Dutch Ministry Infrastructure and Water Management Procurement Data 2023

Annual procurement expenditure data for goods and services from suppliers to the Dutch central government. The information is compiled by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and used to inform the Dutch House of Representatives and support national category managers. The dataset is published under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing government spending patterns on goods and services based on annual expenditure reporting.
• Assessing the share of procurement awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based on the description's mention of this metric.
• Supporting public procurement strategy and category management based on the described use for providing 'Rijksbrede' (national) procurement information.

Strengths

• Data is collected annually from all ministries and their subordinate service units, suggesting a systematic collection process.
• The dataset is used for official parliamentary reporting in the 'Jaarrapportage Bedrijfsvoering Rijk', indicating a formal use case.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

Annual information on procurement expenditures collected from all ministries and their subordinate service units.

Time Range

2023

Freshness

Covers the year 2023, but the last update date for the dataset file is unknown.

Geography

Netherlands