Dutch Government Procurement Expenditure for Education, Culture and Science in 2019

Procurement expenditure data from the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science for the year 2019. The dataset is compiled annually by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations from all ministries and departments to inform the House of Representatives and support government-wide category management. It is published under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze government spending patterns on goods and services based on the annual procurement expenditure data.
• Track the share of procurement contracts awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based on the reporting purpose mentioned.
• Support category management for government-wide purchasing based on the described use of the data by category managers.

Strengths

• Data is provided in a machine-readable CSV format.
• The dataset has a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license.

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

2019

Freshness

Data is for the year 2019; update frequency is annual.

Geography

Netherlands (national government)