Welcome to the procurement section of the YHN website. 

YHN procures a range of goods and services from stationery items to building materials. We spend around £145m per year on externally provided goods and services.  

Our approach to procurement is detailed in our Procurement Strategy.  This details our vision, strategic aims and how we will deliver the strategy. Visit our Strategies, plans and reports page to download our Corporate Procurement Strategy.  

As an ALMO YHN’s procurement activities are governed by a number of legislative and regulatory sources. This impacts and governs our approach to strategic sourcing, acquisition and post contract activities.

We are keen to widen our supplier base and increase the number of organisations we do business with.  In order to do this we are looking to improve the way we advertise tender opportunities and expand our standing list of suppliers.

• All our tenders over a certain value (£173,934 for goods and services and £4,348,350 works) are advertised through the Supplement of the Official Journal of the European Union. This can be accessed through Tenders Electronic Daily at http://ted.europa.eu/
  
• For all supply and install contracts, we operate a standing list of approved suppliers. If you are interested in becoming registered on this list, then please contact Christopher Nicholson, Procurement Manager, on telephone number 0191 278 8632 or e-mail christopher.nicholson@yhn.org.uk

We also now advertise all current tender opportunities for procurements over £5,000 via the North East Purchasing Organisation e- procurement portal, which will enable us to engage electronically with prospective suppliers. For more information on how to register and view current procurement opportunities please click here.

For details of proposed tender opportunities please click here.

Payments over £500

YHN believes it is important to be open about how we spend money.  Each month we publish a list of all payments we make which are over £500 (including VAT), showing who we paid, how much we paid, and what this was for. Click here to read more.

Further information

If you require any further information please contact Christopher Nicholson, Procurement Manager on telephone number 0191 278 8632 or e-mail christopher.nicholson@yhn.org.uk