Amgen has established a Supplier Diversity Program to ensure that small businesses are not excluded from participating in the supply of goods and/or services required by Amgen. Amgen is committed to identifying and awarding contracts to small, disadvantaged, women-owned businesses consistent with Amgen's requirements. Amgen strives to identify, develop, and utilize small, disadvantaged, veteran, disabled veteran, and women-owned business enterprises, as well as Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZone), in our procurement program. Amgen's intent is to support economic development efforts to the extent that jobs may be provided, entrepreneurship may be advanced, and useful goods and/or services may be procured at competitive prices. The law obligates contractors dealing with the U.S. Federal Government to comply with the subcontracting provisions contained in certain federal contracts pursuant to the Small Business Act and Public Law 95-507. As a contractor to the U.S. Federal Government, through our sales to the Veterans Administration, Amgen endorses the objective of those provisions and complies with all applicable provisions of the Small Business Act and Public Law 95-507.

• Small Business Concern
  A business concern, including its affiliates, that is independently owned and operated, not dominant in the field of operation in which it is bidding on government contracts, and qualified as a small business under the criteria and size standards of 13 CFR Part 121.201. Click here for full descriptions and standards.
• Disadvantaged Business Concern
  A small business concern that is at least 51% owned by one or more socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, and whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more of such individuals, as defined in 13 CFR Part 124.105 (b) and (c). Effective July 1, 1999 all small disadvantaged firms, on new awards, must be certified by the Small Business Administration. Amgen cannot apply awards to uncertified firms to achieve its small disadvantaged business goal.
• Women-Owned Business
  A small business concern that has at least 51% owned by one or more women, or, in the case of any publicly owned business, at least 51% of the stock that is owned by one or more women; and whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more women, who also control and operate it. (FAR 52.219-8)

Small Business Act Penalties for Violations

Section 16(d) of the Act, (15 USC 645(d)), makes it a criminal offense to misrepresent in writing the status of any concern as a "small business concern" in order to obtain for oneself or another any prime contract to be awarded pursuant to section 9 or 15 of the Act, or any subcontract to be awarded pursuant to section 8(a) of the Act, or any subcontract included as part or all of a goal contained in a subcontracting plan required pursuant to section 8(d) of the Act, or any prime or subcontract to be awarded as a result or in furtherance of any other provisions of Federal law that specifically references section 8(d) of the Act for a definition of program eligibility. Violations of section 16(d) are punishable by a fine of not more than $500,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 10 years or both, and can result in certain administrative remedies, including suspension and debarment.

Note: For more information regarding definitions or certificates, please refer to the SBA Website.