Dutch Government Procurement Expenditure for 2017 by Ministry

Purchasing expenditure data from the Dutch Ministry of General Affairs for the year 2017. The dataset is used to inform the House of Representatives about government procurement and the share of small and medium-sized enterprises. It originates from the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and is published under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze annual government procurement spending patterns based on the reported expenditure data.
• Track the share of contracts awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises based on the description's stated purpose.
• Benchmark purchasing activity across different government ministries and subdivisions based on the reporting structure.

Strengths

• Data is used for official parliamentary reporting on government procurement.
• 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 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)

Collection Method

Annual reporting of procurement expenditures from all ministries and subdivisions.

Time Range

2017

Freshness

Covers the year 2017; last update date is unknown.

Geography

Netherlands (national government)