Strategic Procurement and Contracts

Brown Users Small Business Information Page

Brown Users Small Business Information Page

Browns Small Business Resource Center

Strategic Procurement and Contracts (SPC) provides assistance to units and departments within Brown and plays a vital role in optimizing the relationship between the University and its Suppliers.

 

Supplier Engagement Policy Statement

Brown University is committed to developing mutually beneficial relationships and inclusive purchasing practices by engaging businesses, including but not limited to small and local businesses offering goods and services. This Supplier Engagement statement reflects Brown's desire to create opportunities for suppliers to market their goods and services to the University and to encourage University departments to offer opportunities to suppliers.

The term “supplier” is a general term used to refer to any person or organization that needs to be set up in Workday to be paid. Suppliers may be individuals, independent contractors, businesses, corporations, hospitals, small and local businesses and other institutions.

The University expects purchasing decisions to be made consistent with Brown's best interests and to display fairness and integrity in the acquisition of goods and services and create opportunities with suppliers, including but not limited to small and local businesses, during the purchase process.

Interested in finding new suppliers? Select a description below.

Find a Supplier in Workday with a 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.

To view a supplier’s diversity classification in Workday, click on the supplier, and in the supplier’s Overview tab select Classification. 

Small Business 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

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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Don't see somebody that's a good fit?

If you have exhausted all of the resources above, please contact us at procurement@brown.edu