Our mission is to provide services that add value and improvement in support of patient care for UCLA Health System. The Procurement and Strategic Sourcing Department strives to become an acknowledged leader among service providers, recognized for innovative, high quality and cost effective approaches to meeting and exceeding our customers' expectations.  The Procurement and Strategic Sourcing Department takes pride in applying our core values:

• Seeking, establishing, and maintaining supplier relationships that foster the premise of best quality at the lowest total cost
• Improving processes to facilitate ease of procurement
• Identifying ways to improve the supply chain to maintain the lowest overall operational costs while still providing excellent patient care
• Understanding and responding to our customers' business needs and challenges
• Remaining open, competitive, and fair in our business practices
• Retaining the integrity and confidentiality of the information we utilize in compliance with applicable law and accreditation requirements
• Developing and fostering a dynamic, proactive, and committed relationship with all activities with which we are associated
• Continuously supporting the six pillars that are the hallmark of our commitment to caring: people, service, quality, finance, growth and innovation