Dutch Government Procurement Expenditure for Health, Welfare, and Sport

Procurement data from the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport details government expenditure on goods and services for the year 2020. The dataset is used to provide Rijkswide procurement information to category managers and to report to the House of Representatives on government procurement and SME participation. It has been collected annually since at least 2012.

Use Cases

• Analyzing annual government procurement expenditure by ministry based on reported spending data.
• Tracking the share of contracts awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based on reported SME participation.
• Informing parliamentary oversight and annual business administration reports based on procurement information submitted to the House of Representatives.
• Supporting category management for generic purchasing categories across government based on Rijkswide procurement information.

Strengths

• Data is collected annually from all ministries and departments, suggesting systematic coverage.
• Has been used for parliamentary reporting on procurement and SME share since 2012, indicating a longitudinal use case.
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 license, allowing for broad reuse.

Limitations

• Specific column names, row counts, and file sizes are unknown, limiting assessment of granularity and scale.
• The last update date and author information are not provided, obscuring data freshness and origin details.
• Descriptions are repetitive across sources, suggesting sparse or incomplete metadata.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Annual collection of purchasing expenditure information from all ministries and departments.

Time Range

2020 (specific year), with data collection reported since 2012.

Geography

National government of the Netherlands.