2018 purchasing expenditure data from the Dutch national government, aggregated by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. The dataset likely contains records of expenditure on goods and services from suppliers across all ministries and departments. This information is used for internal government procurement management and to report to the House of Representatives on government spending and SME participation.
Use Cases
- Analyze government spending distribution across ministries based on the reported procurement expenditure.
- Track the share of small and medium-sized enterprises in public contracts based on the annual reporting purpose.
- Study trends in generic purchasing categories managed by government category managers.
Strengths
- Data is provided under a permissive CC0-1.0 license.
- The description specifies a clear purpose for annual reporting to parliament.
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, Netherlands)
- Collection Method
- Aggregated from information provided by all ministries and departments on their purchase expenditure.
- Time Range
- 2018
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Netherlands (national government)