Dutch Government Purchasing Expenditure for 2021 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Purchasing expenditure data from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands for the year 2021. The dataset is provided by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties and is used for Rijkswide purchasing information and annual reporting to the House of Representatives. It is available in an EXCEL XLSX file format under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing annual government procurement expenditure patterns based on the described purchasing information.
• Tracking the share of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in state contracts as reported to parliament.
• Informing category managers for generic purchasing categories across the government.
• Supporting the creation of the Annual Report on Business Management submitted to the House of Representatives.

Strengths

• Data is used for official government reporting to the House of Representatives, suggesting a formal collection process.
• The dataset is part of a series that has been collected since 2012, allowing for potential longitudinal analysis.

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 (Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations of the Netherlands).

Collection Method

Annual procurement expenditure information submitted by ministries and subdivisions.

Time Range

2021

Freshness

Covers the year 2021; last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Netherlands (national government).