Dutch Government Procurement Expenditure for the Ministry of Justice and Security, 2017

Dutch national government purchasing expenditure data for goods and services from suppliers. The dataset contains the 2017 procurement information for the Ministry of Justice and Security, compiled by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. This data is used to inform the House of Representatives and support government-wide category management.

Use Cases

• Analyze government spending patterns based on annual procurement expenditure data
• Track the share of contracts awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based on the description's stated purpose
• Benchmark procurement categories across ministries based on the mention of category managers

Strengths

• Data is provided under a permissive CC0-1.0 license
• Focuses on a specific year (2017) and ministry, providing temporal and organizational specificity

Limitations

• Row count is 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 collection of purchasing expenditure information from all ministries and departments

Time Range

2017

Freshness

Annual reporting cycle, but specific last update date is unknown.

Geography

Netherlands