JPMorgan Chase spends more than $2 billion a year buying from diverse-owned businesses. In 2023 the bank reported about $2.3 billion in direct spend with diverse suppliers, up roughly 10% over the prior year. Those numbers pull a lot of owners toward the same question: how do I get some of that?
Here's the honest version. There is a real, public front door, and you should walk through it. But getting added to JPMorgan Chase's supplier database is the starting line, not a contract. Most businesses that register never hear back, and the ones that win work usually did something beyond filling out a form. This guide covers both: the exact application, and the part that actually gets you considered.
The program, by its real namesThe umbrella effort is JPMorgan Chase's Global Supplier Diversity program. The piece you interact with as a vendor is the JPMorganChase Supplier Network, a database that procurement decision-makers inside the bank search when they're sourcing. You apply to join the Network through an online application hosted at jpmorganchase.suppliergateway.com.
One thing the bank says plainly, and you should take it seriously: acceptance into the Supplier Network does not designate you a "preferred supplier." It makes your profile visible to buyers. That's it. Visibility is worth having. It is not the same as a purchase order.
A note on 2025 and 2026. In March 2025 JPMorgan rebranded its "DEI" work to "DOI," Diversity, Opportunity and Inclusion, and pushed program ownership out of a central office into individual business units. The supplier program kept running through that change. If a page or program name reads slightly differently by the time you apply, that shift is why. The application itself, and the value of being a certified diverse business, didn't go away.
Which certifications JPMorgan Chase acceptsTo get through the Supplier Network application, you generally need a small-business or diverse-ownership certification from a recognized third party. Based on the bank's published supplier diversity page, accepted certifications include:
- NMSDC (National Minority Supplier Development Council) for minority-owned businesses
- WBENC (Women's Business Enterprise National Council) for women-owned businesses
- NGLCC (National LGBT Chamber of Commerce) for LGBTQ-owned businesses
- NVBDC and NaVOBA for veteran- and service-disabled-veteran-owned businesses
- Disability:IN for disability-owned businesses
- USPAACC and USHCC for Asian American and Hispanic chambers
- WEConnect International and MSDUK for global and UK-based diverse suppliers
- SBA 8(a), Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE), HUBZone, and various state and federal agency certifications
Some certifications are accepted on a case-by-case basis, so read the application requirements rather than assuming your specific credential qualifies.
If you don't hold any of these yet, that's the first move, not the second. A national certification like NMSDC's MBE or WBENC's WBE is the credential most corporate programs, including this one, screen for. Getting certified takes most owners weeks and a stack of ownership and financial documents. CertifyAll handles that filing for you, so you arrive at the JPMorgan Chase application already holding the credential its form asks for.
The application, step by step1. Get certified first. Don't start the Supplier Network application without a current certification number in hand. The form is built to verify it.
2. Build a tight company profile. Have your legal name, NAICS or commodity codes, certification details, capabilities, and a short, specific description of what you sell. "We do marketing" loses. "We run multilingual print-and-mail compliance campaigns for regulated financial firms" gets found in a database search.
3. Submit the online application at jpmorganchase.suppliergateway.com. You complete the profile and submit it for review. The bank then makes a decision about whether to add your profile to the Network.
4. Wait for a decision. Acceptance means your profile is searchable by JPMorgan Chase procurement. It does not trigger an order, an introduction, or preferred status. Treat it as the bank now being able to find you, not obligated to.
That's the whole official process. It's short because it's a registration, not a sales cycle.
Why most registrations go nowhere (and what to do instead)A bank the size of JPMorgan Chase has thousands of suppliers and a finite number of categories it's actively sourcing in any given quarter. Sitting in a searchable database works only if a buyer happens to search your category at the moment they have a need and you read as the obvious fit. For most registrants, that moment never lines up. The profile sits.
The suppliers who actually break in tend to do three things the database alone can't do for you:
- They meet buyers in person. JPMorgan Chase participates in NMSDC, WBENC, and chamber events, matchmaking sessions, and supplier workshops. A 20-minute matchmaking conversation does more than a year in a database. Acceptance into the Network often comes with invitations to these events. Show up to them.
- They sell into a specific category, not "the bank." Procurement is organized by what it buys: technology, facilities, marketing, professional services, print, staffing. Know exactly which category you fit and speak to that category's pain, not to the firm in general.
- They go through a current prime first. This is the underrated path, and JPMorgan Chase built a program around it.
JPMorgan Chase runs a Tier 2 Supplier Program that asks its existing prime suppliers to spend with certified diverse businesses inside their own supply chains, then report that spend back to the bank. Participation is voluntary for primes and doesn't affect their JPMC contracts, but the program exists because the bank wants more diverse dollars flowing than it can place directly.
For you, that's an opening. Instead of waiting for a buyer at the bank to find you, you become a subcontractor to a company that already holds a JPMorgan Chase contract. The prime reports your work as Tier 2 diverse spend, which they're motivated to grow. You get revenue and a real reference, often faster than a direct award would ever come.
The mechanics, for context: primes report quarterly through jpmorganchase.suppliergateway.com, within a 45-day window after each quarter closes, and count both direct spend (dollars on a specific JPMC contract) and indirect spend (a prorated share of their company-wide diverse spend). You don't file any of that. You just need to land work with a prime and let them report it. New primes can reach the bank's Tier 2 team at jpmc.tiertwo.reporting@jpmchase.com; as a diverse supplier, your job is to find the primes serving the bank in your category and pitch them.
A realistic timelineCertification is the long pole. Budget several weeks to a few months depending on the body and how clean your documents are. The Supplier Network application itself is quick once you're certified. After that, getting actual work is open-ended. Some suppliers land a Tier 2 subcontract within a quarter or two of working the relationships. Others sit in the database for a year with nothing. The difference is almost always whether you treated registration as the finish or the start.
What to do this month- Get a recognized diverse-business certification if you don't have one. It's the gate for this program and nearly every corporate program like it.
- Apply to the JPMorganChase Supplier Network at jpmorganchase.suppliergateway.com with a category-specific profile.
- Identify the primes already selling to the bank in your category and pitch them on a Tier 2 subcontract.
- Show up at the NMSDC, WBENC, and chamber matchmaking events where the bank's buyers actually are.
JPMorgan Chase is one of hundreds of corporate programs running on the same playbook: certify, register, build relationships, subcontract. Once you understand how one of them works, the rest read the same. Browse the corporate supplier diversity programs directory to find the buyers in your industry, then put yourself in front of more than one. If you want the deeper mechanics of getting selected once you're in a database, start with how to get into corporate supplier diversity programs, and list your business on our supplier directory so buyers searching outside the bank can find you too.
