The Netherlands' procurement expenditure data for the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in 2020. This dataset contains purchasing expenditure on goods and services from suppliers, compiled annually by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. The data is used to inform the House of Representatives and appears in the Annual Report on Business Administration.
Use Cases
- Analyzing government spending patterns on goods and services based on the described procurement expenditure.
- Tracking the share of contracts awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based on the reporting purpose mentioned.
- Benchmarking procurement activities across different government ministries and departments based on the described Rijkswide information system.
Strengths
- Data is provided under a permissive CC0-1.0 license, allowing for broad reuse.
- The dataset is part of a standardized annual reporting process to the Dutch parliament, suggesting a consistent collection methodology.
Limitations
- Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- The 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
- 2020
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- The Netherlands