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Contract Vendors

One of IowaBio's most popular membership benefits is access to incredible savings made available by our Contract Vendors.  These savings include product discounts, free shipping, and single point-of-contact consultation on items such as:

  • Lab supplies, chemicals and equipment
  • Lab casework, design and build-outs
  • Office supplies, equipment and hardware
  • Property, casualty and liability insurance
  • Courier services
  • Credit card for life sciences

Read more below about each of our available Contract Vendors through our BioVantage Program and the savings they provide. If you would like to be connected with a Contract Vendor to learn more about their services and savings, please contact Melissa Moyer at melissa@iowabio.org or 515-327-9156.

Contract Vendors

Fisher Scientific (Primary Lab Supply Vendor)

Fisher Scientific is IowaBio's primary lab supply vendor. Contract highlights include: 

  • Aggressive discounts in categories including consumables, chemicals, life science products, safety protection and laboratory apparatus, instruments and equipment.
  • Product access to over 800,000 products and 6,000 suppliers
  • Dedicated on-site customer service to all IBA members
  • Estimated delivery on 24 – 48 hours on products warehoused with Fisher Scientific.
  • Infinitely Dependable Sales Team.  

For the second year in a row, IowaBio is excited to offer an exclusive rebate opportunity to all users of the Fisher Scientific contract. View the promotional flier here and contact Melissa Moyer at melissa@iowabio.org with any questions!

Click here to learn more about Fisher Scientific and its offerings to IowaBio members.

Fisher Scientific (Primary Lab Supply Vendor)

VWR (Secondary Lab supply Vendor)

VWR is IowaBio's secondary lab supply vendor. Contract highlights include: 

  • Discounted pricing for all product categories
  • Free Shipping on most items
  • Almost 1 million products offered through over 5,000 manufacturers
  • New Lab Start-up Packages
  • VWR Catalyst Team – Offering Calibration and Validation Services
  • Free Cost Savings Analysis
  • Product Demonstrations

Click here to learn more about VWR and its offerings to IowaBio members.

VWR (Secondary Lab supply Vendor)

Wynn O. Jones

Wynn O. Jones is IowaBio's sole vendor for lab Casework and Furniture. Contract highlights include: 

  • Casework has already gone through bidding process - saving time and money
  • Free consultant services to owner's architect also results in additional discount
  • Free planning, design, and drawing services directly to State Contract users
  • Contract pricing available direct or through general contractor on G.C. bids
  • WOJ has 30-plus years in the science casework industry
  • Large established base of successful State of Iowa science casework projects

Click here to learn more about Wynn O. Jones and its offerings to IowaBio members.

Wynn O. Jones

Office Depot

Office Depot is IowaBio's sole vendor for lab Office Supplies, Equipment and Furniture. Contract highlights include: 

  • 1,600 item core list deeply discounted on the most-purchased products.
  • Additional 550 item core list of ink and toner.
  • Core items easily identified by in website to target savings.
  • Aggressive pricing on copy paper
  • Volume rebate for all participants up to 5 percent of total spend
  • New customer-friendly website with built-in custom features to help control and manage and expenditures

Click here to learn more about Office Depot and its offerings to IowaBio members.

Office Depot

Chubb Insurance (managed by LMC)

Chubb Insurance is IowaBio's sole vendor for Property, Casualty and Liability Insurance. It is managed by IowaBio's preferred provider: LMC Insurance & Risk Management. Contract highlights include: 

  • 10% premium credit (subject to regulatory limitations)
  • Very competitive premiums for companies at all stages
  • Low minimum premiums for early stage companies
  • Broad coverage tailored to meet the unique needs of the biotech industry
  • A Preferred Provider through LMC Insurance to ensure that all needs are met for each specific IowaBio member

Click here to learn more about Chubb Insurance and its offerings to IowaBio members.

Chubb Insurance (managed by LMC)

UPS

UPS is IowaBio's sole vendor for lab Courier Services. Contract highlights include: 

  • Save from 50-70% on UPS Next Day Air® services
  • Save from 30-55% on UPS 2nd Day Air® services
  • Save from 35-55% on UPS 3 Day Select Services®
  • Save from to 18- 47% on UPS Ground® Commercial services
  • Save from to 12-40% on UPS Ground® Residential services
  • Save up to 65% on UPS Worldwide International services
  • Special pricing on UPS’ Proactive Response
  • UPS Capital Flexible Parcel Insurance
  • UPS Temperature True® Packaging
  • UPS Store Business Services discounts and other Value added services

Click here to learn more about UPS and its offerings to IowaBio members.

UPS

BREX - Corporate Credit Card for Life Sciences

BREX, the official corporate card of BIO, is designed to empower its life sciences customers to spend less time on end of month closes and more time on life changing R&D. The card offers its customers streamlined reporting functions, rewards and unmatched controls including; no personal guarantee requirements, higher limits than traditional credit cards, instant creation of virtual cards, automatic receipt capture, and tailored rewards such as 3x points multipliers on lab equipment. Points can be redeemed as cash back to pay down statement balances, book travel, or transfer miles to select partner airlines. 

Click here to learn more about BREX and its offerings to IowaBio members.

BREX - Corporate Credit Card for Life Sciences

BIO

IowaBio is the state affiliate and a proud member of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO). Three of our contract vendor partners above come from BIO's Business Solutions® Program. They include:

  • Chubb Insurance
  • UPS
  • BREX - Corporate Credit Card for Life Sciences

If you would like IowaBio to provide access to additional contracts outside of our BioVantage Program and within the BIO's Business Solutions® Program, let us know!

BIO
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