About Office of Contract Administration

We are responsible for procuring the goods and services City departments need to provide essential public services to San Franciscans. OCA holds more than 600 long-term contracts valued at approximately $3.23B and annually publicly bids and awards contracts exceeding $500M. 

Management

• Sailaja Kurella, Director and Purchaser, 415-554-6701, sailaja.kurella@sfgov.org
• Lorna Walker, Deputy Director of Procurement, 628-652-1639, lorna.walker@sfgov.org
• Abtin Forghani, Deputy Director of Procurement, 415-554-0619 abtin.forghani@sfgov.org
• Molly Peterson, Deputy Director of Operations & Procurement Reform, 628-652-1241, molly.peterson@sfgov.org

Purchasing staff

• See our OCA staff directory for a full list of purchasing staff with contact information.

We work with the following departments to support purchasing and contracting in San Francisco:

• Office of the City Administrator (CAO)
• Contract Monitoring Division (CMD)
• Office of Labor Standards Enforcement (OLSE)
• Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD)