6-617: YPO , also referred to as Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation , is a publicly owned central purchasing body based in Wakefield, Yorkshire . It is owned and governed by a consortium of county , metropolitan and borough councils in Yorkshire and the North West England. It provides a wide range of resources and services to schools, councils, charities, emergency services, and other public sector organisations. It claims to be
12-540: A contracting authority may use the services of a central purchasing body located in another Member State, and should do so in accordance with the national procurement rules which apply where the central purchasing body is located. In the UK, central government organisations are required by HM Treasury guidance to use the Government Procurement Service ( Crown Commercial Service ) in its capacity as
18-610: A small surplus each year, with profits returned to member authorities and customers. This article about a service company in the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . List of central purchasing bodies in the United Kingdom This is a list of central purchasing bodies serving public sector procurement in the United Kingdom. Central purchasing bodies are also known as "Public Buying Organisations" (PBOs). In May 2010
24-791: Is to support "the acquisition of supplies or services, or both, intended for contracting authorities", and "the award of public contracts or the conclusion of framework agreements [or dynamic purchasing systems] for works, supplies or services intended for contracting authorities". The definitions are derived from Articles 2(1)(14) and 37 of the European Union 's Directive on Public Procurement , Directive 2014/24/EU, transposed into UK legislation in 2015. Similar organisations can be found in other EU Member States, for instance Hansel Ltd. in Finland and Consip in Italy . The EU rules provide that
30-628: The National Audit Office estimated that there were just under 50 public buying organisations in the UK. A "central purchasing body” is defined in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as "a contracting authority which provides centralised purchasing activities and which may also provide ancillary purchasing activities". The role of a central purchasing body, as defined in Regulation 37 of the regulations,
36-636: The 'largest formally constituted public sector buying organisation in the UK'. YPO was formed as the Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation in 1974 as a joint committee of local authorities, and grew through the 1970s and 80s as schools gained power of their own budgets under the Local Management of Schools provisions of the Education Reform Act 1988 . The organisation is unsubsidised and budgets to make
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