Dutch Government Procurement Expenditure for Education, Culture, and Science in 2017

Dutch national government purchasing expenditure on goods and services from suppliers for the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in 2017. The data is compiled annually by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and used to inform the House of Representatives and category managers. It is published under a CC0-1.0 license.

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 report's stated purpose.
• Benchmark procurement categories for government-wide purchasing strategies based on the description of category managers.
• Track annual changes in ministerial procurement expenditure based on the established yearly reporting cycle.

Strengths

• Data is provided under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license.
• Reporting is part of an established annual process for government-wide transparency.
• The dataset focuses on a specific year (2017) and ministry, providing temporal and organizational specificity.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are 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).