YPO and South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue celebrate 20 years of collaboration

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00:30Morning, Tony.

00:31Morning, Chris.

00:32Is that all you've got for us today?

00:33Yes, just station in Tyler, Chris.

00:34All right, thank you.

00:35Bye, love.

00:36Bye.

00:37In 1974, a group of local authorities recognised that by combining their buying demands for

00:51schools in their areas, they could achieve considerable efficiency savings.

00:56So YPO was born.

00:57Today, we're still 100% publicly owned, but work with even more organisations to achieve

01:08the same goal.

01:24We employ over 500 people operating out of our Wakefield headquarters.

01:29Every day, we dispatch over 14,000 items from our range of 30,000 products and resources

01:36from our two warehouses to around 1,500 customers.

01:45And as the country's largest public sector buying organisation, our customers include

01:50more than 30,000 schools, local authorities, care homes and emergency service providers

01:56who all have access to the best possible range and prices without ever having to compromise

02:02on service or quality.

02:12In recent years, our organisation has evolved and we now offer around 100 procurement frameworks

02:18available to public sector organisations, offering easy access to a range of contract

02:24services and agreements.

02:36It's our goal to continue to deliver great value and help drive efficiencies in the public

02:41sector for many years to come.