Dutch Government Procurement Expenditure for the Ministry of Justice and Security, 2018

Procurement expenditure data from the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security for the year 2018. The dataset is part of an annual collection used to inform the House of Representatives on government spending and the share awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises. It originates from the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties and is published under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze annual government procurement expenditure patterns based on the described spending data.
• Assess the share of contracts awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises based on the reporting purpose mentioned.
• Benchmark spending for the Ministry of Justice and Security against other government departments based on the Rijkswide procurement information system.

Strengths

• Data is part of a formal annual reporting process to the House of Representatives, suggesting an official source.
• Has been used for Rijkswide procurement analysis since at least 2012, indicating a time series context.

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

Collection Method

Annual aggregation of purchasing expenditure from all ministries and departments.

Time Range

2018

Freshness

Data is for the year 2018; update frequency is likely annual.

Geography

Netherlands (national government)