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 (click here to access our Procurement Strategy). This details our vision, strategic aims and how we will deliver the 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 (£156,442, for goods and services and £3,927,260 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, Finance Manager (Procurement & Payments) on telephone number
  0191-2788632 or e-mail christopher.nicholson@yhn.org.uk

We currently advertise tender opportunities on our website:

• Click here for current tender opportunities
• Click here for proposed tender opportunties

This system will be replaced during 2010-11 with an e-procuremnet system which will enable us to engage electronically with prospective suppliers in relation to all procurements over £5,000.

For further information and an update, contact Christopher Nicholson, Finance Manager (Procurement & Payments) on telephone number 0191-2788632 or e-mail christopher.nicholson@yhn.org.uk