Netherlands Government Procurement Expenditure by Ministry, 2017

Dutch national government purchasing expenditure on goods and services from suppliers for the year 2017. The data is compiled by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and used to inform the House of Representatives and category managers about government procurement and SME participation. It is published under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze government spending patterns based on annual purchasing expenditure data.
• Assess the share of small and medium-sized enterprises in public contracts based on reported procurement information.
• Support category management strategies for government purchasing based on Rijkswide procurement data.

Strengths

• Data is used for official annual reporting to the House of Representatives.
• Covers procurement expenditure for all ministries and departments for a specific year.
• Published under a permissive CC0-1.0 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 collection of purchasing expenditure information from all ministries and departments.

Time Range

2017

Freshness

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

Geography

Netherlands