Novartis is always looking for opportunities to work with small businesses, that provide unique expertise as well as innovative ideas, products and services.

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Commitment

Our Commitment

To Our Prospective Business Partners:

Developing a supplier base that fosters competition and drives innovation includes nurturing relationships with small businesses within our supplier community. We want to work with companies and individuals that bring different thoughts, ideas, backgrounds and experiences to help us innovate in every aspect of our business. This enables us to work together best as one team to help patients and improve patient care.

Our Mission

Where business objectives align, we pledge to provide opportunities to businesses of all sizes that understand the needs of our business and all our patient communities.

By seeking to continually identify and partner with best-in-class suppliers, we want to offer opportunities that will support those suppliers’ own growth and development while advancing the mission and goals of Novartis.

Registration

Registration

Small Businesses can register with Novartis in our small business portal to support our compliance to small business reporting and to facilitate engagement between our company and our suppliers. Once you are registered, our team and procurement category managers will have access to the database and be ablet to run searches based on upcoming needs. Please keep your information up to date.

Types of businesses that Novartis considers small businesses, as defined by the US Small Business Administration (SBA):

Register as a supplier with Novartis

Small Business Enterprise (SBE): Business that meets size standards set by the SBA for annual revenue or number of employees, as determined by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code classification for the product or service that business supplies.

Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB): A for-profit SBE that is at least 51% owned by one or more individuals who are both socially and economically disadvantaged.

Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB): A for-profit SBE that is at least 51% owned by one or more U.S. citizen women.

Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB): A for-profit SBE, at least 51% owned and controlled by U.S. citizen(s) who are identified by the US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) as a Veteran.

Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB): A for-profit SBE, at least 51% owned and controlled by one or more Veterans who are rated as service-disabled by the VA.

HUBZone: A for-profit SBE with its principal office located in a historically underutilized business zone with at least 35% of its employees residing in a HUBZone.

Self-certification / Small Business affidavit is required when registering in our small business portal in order to be recognized as a small business. For SDB, VOSB, SDVOSB, and HubZone, SBA certification is required. More information on small business definitions, size standards and requirements, as well as reference to government Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), can be found on the US SBA website, www.sba.gov.

FAQs

Contact SBA Offices and Services

You can find them on the U.S. Census Bureau web site.

Once you are registered, category managers will have access to the database and be able to run searches based on upcoming needs. Please bookmark this site to update your information as needed.

What We Buy

What We Buy

Novartis has a broad array of buying needs with requirements that can vary greatly depending on location, operation and/or business. Below is a sampling of goods and services currently procured from small business suppliers:

  • Digital, Social, Mobile
  • Discovery, Pre-Clinical, Technical Development, and Clinical Services
  • Engineering and Construction
  • Facility Services
  • Information Technologies
  • Laboratory Supplies & Equipment
  • Manufacturing Related
  • Marketing Insights and Analytics
  • Marketing: Advertising, Medical Education Services, & Multichannel Marketing
  • Maintenance, Repair, Operations (MRO)
  • Office Supplies
  • Patient Services
  • Professional Services
  • Print & Promotional Materials
  • Telecommunications
  • Temporary Services & Staffing
  • Training
  • Travel