Brown will facilitate inclusive procurement opportunities and encourage university departments and schools to offer opportunities to such suppliers. Brown’s supplier diversity efforts are an essential component to supporting the University’s DIAP program.
Strategic Procurement and Contracts
Supplier Diversity
Diversity Supplier Classifications
- AbilityOne Program - AbilityOne Classified Business
- ANC-Indian-Tribe - American Indians and Alaska Natives
- DBE - Disadvantaged Business Enterprise
- Disabled - Disability Owned Business
- EDWOSB - Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned Small Business
- HBCU Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- HUBZone - Historically Underutilized Business
- LGBT - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
- MBE - Minority Business Enterprise
- SBA 8(a) - Small Business in the 8a Development Program
- SBE - Small Business Enterprise
- SC-SDB - Self-Certified Small Disadvantaged Business
- SDB - Small Disadvantaged Business
- SDVET - Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business
- VET - Veteran Owned Business
- WBE - Women Business Enterprise
- WOSB - Woman-Owned Small Business
Find a Supplier in Workday with a Diversity Supplier Classification
The Find Suppliers Report in Workday enables you to search for active Workday suppliers, and suppliers with diversity classifications. Additional search options can be selected such as Supplier Category and Supplier Group to focus your supplier search. For information on how to run this report and its related job aid, search Find Suppliers Report in the Workday Learning section under the Menu.
View a supplier's diversity classification in Workday
To view a supplier's diversity classification in Workday, click on the supplier, and in the supplier's Overview tab select Classification.
Supplier.io
Strategic Procurement & Contracts has partnered with supplier.io to identify current diverse suppliers at Brown and SPC can assist with providing spend data with diverse suppliers.
Supplier.io Explorer
Supplier.io Explorer is a software piece from Supplier.io that provides a database of diverse suppliers within The Boston Consortium For Higher Education. Please contact supplierdiversity@brown.edu to assist with obtaining access to the database or assistance with searching for and identifying diverse suppliers within the database.
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Diversity Classifications and Doing Business with Brown
Supplier Diversity at Brown connects certified suppliers with opportunities to provide their goods and services to Brown University departments. Please visit Doing Business with Brown for more information. There is a Begin Working with Brown section located at the bottom of the page. If you are a supplier that holds diversity certifications you may also email supplierdiversity@brown.edu with information regarding your business.
More Information
For more information regarding Supplier Diversity at Brown, questions and assistance please contact supplierdiversity@brown.edu