Dutch Government Procurement Expenditure and SME Share

Since 2012, this dataset has been used to inform the Dutch House of Representatives about government procurement and the share of small and medium-sized enterprises. It details purchasing expenditure incurred by national ministries and departments on goods and services from suppliers. The data supports Rijkswide procurement information for government category managers.

Use Cases

• Tracking annual government procurement expenditure by ministry based on reported spending data.
• Analyzing the share of contracts awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based on SME participation metrics.
• Informing parliamentary oversight and annual business administration reports based on the longitudinal data collected since 2012.

Strengths

• Provides longitudinal data on government procurement, with reporting established since 2012.
• Released under a permissive public domain license (CC0-1.0).

Limitations

• Key metadata such as row count, file size, last update date, and specific column names are unavailable across all sources.
• The dataset's completeness and granularity cannot be verified due to the lack of column-level detail.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

Annual information on purchase expenditure received from all ministries and departments.

Time Range

Data from at least 2020 is referenced, with a reporting system in place since 2012.

Geography

Netherlands (national government)