Dutch Government Procurement Expenditure for Agriculture, Nature, and Food Quality

Netherlands national government data details annual purchasing expenditure on goods and services across all ministries and departments. The dataset is used to inform the House of Representatives on government procurement and the share awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises, as part of the Annual Report on Business Administration. It supports Rijkswide procurement information for category managers handling generic purchasing categories.

Use Cases

• Tracking SME share in government contracts based on reported procurement expenditure.
• Analyzing annual purchasing expenditure trends across ministries and departments.
• Informing parliamentary oversight on public spending for goods and services.

Strengths

• Data has been collected annually since at least 2012, providing a longitudinal series.
• Released under a permissive public domain license (CC0-1.0).
• Cross-platform presence indicates established use and importance.

Limitations

• Critical metadata such as row count, column names, and last update date are unknown.
• The dataset's scale and completeness cannot be verified from the provided sources.
• Documentation gaps limit understanding of the specific data fields and structure.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Annual collection of purchase expenditure information from all ministries and departments.

Time Range

2012 to present (inferred from description).

Geography

Netherlands (national government)