Dutch Government Procurement Expenditure for 2022

Purchase expenditure data for goods and services from suppliers incurred by the national government of the Netherlands. The dataset is compiled by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and covers the year 2022. It is used to inform category managers and the House of Representatives on government procurement and SME participation.

Use Cases

• Analyze government spending patterns based on annual procurement expenditure data
• Track the share of small and medium-sized enterprises in public contracts based on reported procurement information
• Benchmark category-level spending for generic purchasing categories based on Rijkswide procurement data

Strengths

• Data is provided under a CC0-1.0 public domain license, allowing for unrestricted reuse.
• The dataset is part of a consistent annual reporting series that has been published since 2012.

Limitations

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

Annual aggregation of purchasing expenditure information from all ministries and departments.

Time Range

2022

Freshness

Covers the year 2022. Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Netherlands