Dutch Government Procurement Expenditure Data for 2022

2022 purchasing expenditure data from the Ministry of Justice and Security, compiled by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. This dataset contains information on government spending on goods and services at suppliers, used for Rijkswide procurement analysis and reporting to the House of Representatives. The data is published under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze government spending patterns based on annual purchasing expenditure data.
• Track the share of small and medium-sized enterprises in public contracts based on reported procurement information.
• Inform category management strategies based on Rijkswide procurement data.
• Support transparency and accountability reporting to legislative bodies based on annual procurement reports.

Strengths

• Data is collected annually for all ministries and departments, suggesting systematic coverage.
• The dataset is used for official reporting to the House of Representatives, implying a level of institutional validation.
• Published under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license.

Limitations

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

2022

Freshness

Covers the year 2022. Update frequency is likely annual.

Geography

Netherlands (national government)