Global business supplies industry’s hub, OPI, reports that the YPO contract with Amazon Business is up and running. Amazon Business has taken an important step into the UK public sector channel with the launch of a framework contract with procurement organisation YPO, it says. The two firms have agreed financial terms and have entered into a four-year agreement worth up to £400 million. “Similar to efforts in the US, where the General Services Administration is trying to set up an e-marketplace model for off-contract indirect purchases, the YPO Amazon Business Public Sector Digital Marketplace aims to give procurement managers a handle on ad hoc spending that falls below the stipulated EU thresholds,” read more on that here.