Procurement Services coordinates the purchase of supplies, equipment and professional services to assure cost-efficiency as University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics provides the highest quality, state-of-the-art care environment.

Vendors interested in working with UI Hospitals & Clinics coordinate all of their bidding, negotiation, sales, and supply activities through Procurement Services.

UI Hospitals & Clinics participates in group purchasing efforts to achieve optimum pricing and delivery of goods and services.

Purpose and Mission

Develop a core procurement team to change the "buying culture" and facilitate:

• Enhancement of the patient experience by providing the highest quality, state-of-the-art health care environment in the most cost-efficient manner.
• Creation of an innovative, incremental, clinically-specific approachto develop structures and parallel processes for procurement, knowledgemanagement, supply chain management, and revenue enhancement services.
• Consolidation and coordination of all procurement activities relatedto supplies, equipment, and professional services to maximize the value received by University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics.

Goals

The University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics Department of Procurement Services shall serve its customer groups and hospital administration with two defining goals around which, all projects and efforts shall focus:

• Enhancing and improving the patient experience while at the same time, increasing the UI Hospitals & Clinics operating margin. Whether through "hard savings," "soft savings," or revenue enhancement and creation, we will always define our success by our ability to increase the operating margin.
• Through increases in UI Hospitals & Clinics operating margins, we hope to assist in the increase of capital reserves. Increases in these reserves will enable UI Hospitals & Clinics to continue the cycle of improvement and enhancement of the patient experience.