Dutch Government Procurement Expenditure Data for 2018

Dutch national government purchasing expenditure on goods and services from suppliers for the year 2018. The dataset is provided by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and is used to inform the House of Representatives and support category managers. It is published under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze government spending patterns based on annual procurement expenditure.
• Track the share of contracts awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based on the reporting purpose mentioned.
• Benchmark procurement categories across ministries based on the described use for category managers.

Strengths

• Data is provided under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license.
• The dataset serves a specific, stated policy purpose for reporting to the House of Representatives.

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 information on purchase expenditure submitted by all ministries and departments.

Time Range

2018

Freshness

Data is for the year 2018; update frequency is described as annual.

Geography

Netherlands (national government)