Purchase dates Ministry of General Affairs 2017

Purchasing expenditure is the expenditure incurred by the national government on goods and services from suppliers. Once a year, the Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations receives information on the procurement expenditures of the previous year of all ministries and subdivisions. The Ministry uses this information to provide Rijkswide purchasing information to the category managers of the State, who purchase and procure the generic purchasing categories.

Since 2012, this purchasing information has also been used to inform the House of Representatives about the purchase by the government and about the share of small and medium-sized enterprises in it. This is done in the Annual Report on Business Management.