Dutch Government Procurement Expenditure for 2018

Procurement expenditure data for the Dutch national government in 2018. The dataset provides a complete overview of spending on goods and services from suppliers across all ministries and departments. It is published by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and is used to inform the House of Representatives and category managers.

Use Cases

• Analyze government spending patterns based on the annual procurement overview.
• Assess the share of small and medium-sized enterprises in public contracts based on the report's stated purpose.
• Benchmark supplier performance and expenditure across ministries based on the aggregated purchasing data.

Strengths

• Covers all ministries and departments of the Dutch national government for a specific year (2018).
• Data is used for official parliamentary reporting in the Annual Report on Business Administration.
• Published under a permissive CC0-1.0 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

Aggregated from information provided annually by all ministries and departments on their purchasing expenditure.

Time Range

2018

Freshness

Data is for the year 2018; update frequency is unknown.

Geography

Netherlands (national government)