Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport Procurement Expenditure for 2017

2017 purchasing expenditure data for the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, detailing spending on goods and services from suppliers. The data is compiled annually by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations from all ministries and departments to inform government-wide procurement strategy and reporting to the House of Representatives. The dataset is provided by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze government spending patterns on goods and services based on the described procurement expenditure.
• Assess the share of procurement contracts awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises based on the reporting purpose mentioned in the description.
• Benchmark procurement efficiency and category management across government departments based on the described use for Rijkswide information.
• Support transparency and accountability reporting to legislative bodies based on the described use for informing the House of Representatives.

Strengths

• Data is used for official government reporting to the House of Representatives, suggesting a formal collection process.
• The dataset covers a specific fiscal year (2017), providing a defined temporal snapshot.
• The data supports analysis of SME participation in public contracts, a key policy area.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• 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

2017

Freshness

Annual update frequency is suggested, but the specific last update is unknown.

Geography

Netherlands (implied from the Dutch government context)