Netherlands Government Procurement Expenditure Data

Netherlands national government data details annual purchasing expenditure on goods and services from suppliers. The Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations collects this information from all ministries and departments to provide Rijkswide procurement insights and report to the House of Representatives. Since 2012, the data has been used to analyze the government's procurement activities and the share awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises.

Use Cases

• Analyzing annual government procurement expenditure trends across ministries
• Evaluating the share of contracts awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
• Informing category management strategies for generic purchasing categories
• Supporting parliamentary reporting on business management and administration

Strengths

• Data is published under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain dedication
• The dataset has been used for official parliamentary reporting since 2012, indicating institutional relevance
• Its presence on multiple open data platforms suggests it is a recognized public resource

Limitations

• Critical metadata such as column names, row counts, and file size are unknown across all sources
• The last update date is unspecified, making data freshness uncertain
• Descriptions are sparse, lacking details on data structure, granularity, or specific variables

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Annual information on procurement expenditures submitted by all ministries and departments to the Minister

Time Range

Data collection referenced since 2012; specific dataset covers 2021

Geography

Netherlands (national government)