Dutch Ministry of Defence Procurement Expenditure Data for 2017

2017 purchasing expenditure data for the Dutch Ministry of Defence, aggregated from suppliers of goods and services. The dataset is provided by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and is used for government-wide procurement analysis and annual reporting to parliament. It is published under a CC0-1.0 license via the eu_open_data platform.

Use Cases

• Analyze government spending patterns based on annual procurement expenditure data.
• Assess the share of small and medium-sized enterprises in public contracts based on the reporting purpose mentioned.
• Benchmark procurement categories across ministries based on the description of 'generic purchasing categories'.
• Support transparency and accountability reporting to legislative bodies based on the stated use for informing the House of Representatives.

Strengths

• Data is used for official annual reporting to the Dutch House of Representatives.
• Published under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license.
• Part of a consistent reporting series used since 2012.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• 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 aggregation of purchasing expenditure information from all ministries and departments.

Time Range

2017

Freshness

Data is for the 2017 fiscal year; update frequency is likely annual.

Geography

Netherlands (national government)