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The Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation, referred to as YPO is a publicly owned central purchasing body based in
Wakefield, Yorkshire Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 99,251 in the 2011 census.https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks101ew Census 2011 table KS101EW Usual resident population, ...
. It is owned and governed by a consortium of
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Yorkshire Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other English counties, functions have ...
and the
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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 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 a small surplus each year, with profits returned to member authorities and customers.


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Organisations based in Wakefield Organizations established in 1974 Purchasing consortia Consortia in the United Kingdom 1974 establishments in the United Kingdom Government procurement in the United Kingdom {{UK-service-company-stub