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Intelligent Infrastructure for Science

Purpose-built software for every stage of the R&D lifecycle.

One platform to orchestrate every supplier connection, contract, and workflow, so scientists can focus on science, and procurement teams can focus on strategy.

WHO THIS IS FOR

R&D Operations and Procurement Teams Running Discovery and Preclinical Programs

This solution is built for teams that:

  • Source specialized external capabilities for assays, screening, lead optimization, DMPK, and other preclinical studies

  • Manage relationships with dozens of service providers and consumable suppliers without a unified system

  • Need to onboard new suppliers faster than the current contracting process allows

  • Lack real-time visibility into external R&D spend across services and consumables

  • Want scientists focused on experiments, not on coordinating purchase orders and tracking invoices

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THE PROBLEM

Everyone is losing time to infrastructure that was not built for this.

Scientists are coordinating suppliers and tracking invoices alongside their research. Procurement teams are reconciling data across disconnected systems. Legal and compliance teams are manually compiling documentation that should already exist in one place.

The teams are not the problem. The infrastructure is. Most R&D operations tools were built for a different era: one where organizations had to choose between rigor and speed.

We choose both.

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THE SOLUTION

Intelligent Infrastructure
for Science

Science Exchange is a technology platform supporting the full continuum of life sciences R&D. More than a marketplace: we orchestrate connections, contracts, and workflows across thousands of scientific service partners and lab consumable providers, eliminating the hidden friction that slows science.

One global ecosystem. Working together to move science forward.

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PLATFORM SOLUTIONS

Purpose-built for every stage of the R&D continuum

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  • Pre-Clinical R&D

    Accelerate discovery and development programs without administrative bottlenecks. Access thousands of pre-contracted suppliers for assays, screening, lead optimization, and other preclinical studies; all services and consumables under a single overarching agreement.

     

    Learn More About Pre-Clinical Solutions

  • Clinical Research

    Coordinate clinical trials across sites and specialized vendors. Maintain regulatory compliance, control spend, and keep trials on schedule with centralized vendor management.

    Learn More About Clinical Solutions

  • HEOR and Real-World Evidence

    Standardize vendor management and spend visibility across your health economics and outcomes research portfolio. Automated workflows from intake to billing.

    Learn More About HEOR Solutions
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Pre-Clinical R&D

Accelerate discovery and development programs without administrative bottlenecks. Access thousands of pre-contracted suppliers for assays, screening, lead optimization, and other preclinical studies; all services and consumables under a single overarching agreement.

 

Learn More About Pre-Clinical Solutions
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Clinical Research

Coordinate clinical trials across sites and specialized vendors. Maintain regulatory compliance, control spend, and keep trials on schedule with centralized vendor management.

Learn More About Clinical Solutions
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HEOR and Real-World Evidence

Standardize vendor management and spend visibility across your health economics and outcomes research portfolio. Automated workflows from intake to billing.

Learn More About HEOR Solutions

PLATFORM CAPABILITIES

Five ways we remove R&D friction

Start Work Immediately

Access thousands of pre-contracted suppliers from day one. No individual contract negotiations, CDAs (Confidentiality and Disclosure Agreements), or MTAs (Material Transfer Agreements). Supplier discovery to project start in days.

Drive Compliant Workflows

Standardized, automated workflows for every step of the supplier lifecycle. Compliance checkpoints, approval routing, and audit trails built in.

Streamline Your Payments

Automated invoice matching, milestone-based payment release, and multi-currency processing. Real-time spend visibility against approved budgets.

Discover Strategic Insights

Real-time analytics, network benchmarking, and supplier performance tracking. Turn your R&D supplier data into strategic advantage.

Integrate Your Systems

Connect to ERP, P2P, CTMS, and LIMS. Science Exchange acts as the orchestration layer on top of your existing infrastructure.

WHY SCIENCE EXCHANGE

Purpose-built.
Proven at scale. Designed for this.

  • Purpose-Built for Science
  • Grounded in Decades of Network Data
  • Enterprise-Proven

Not generic procurement software adapted for R&D. Built specifically for life sciences workflows, compliance requirements, and scientific evaluation. We understand protocol requirements, not just purchase orders.

Scopes, performance records, pricing benchmarks, and workflow patterns from thousands of R&D projects inform every recommendation. Delivered responsibly: when the system cannot make a confident recommendation, it escalates to human decision-makers.

Trusted by Merck, Amgen, Gilead, Regeneron, AbbVie, and Astellas. Enterprise-grade infrastructure serving organizations from emerging pharma through global pharma.

Purpose-Built for Science

Not generic procurement software adapted for R&D. Built specifically for life sciences workflows, compliance requirements, and scientific evaluation. We understand protocol requirements, not just purchase orders.

Grounded in Decades of Network Data

Scopes, performance records, pricing benchmarks, and workflow patterns from thousands of R&D projects inform every recommendation. Delivered responsibly: when the system cannot make a confident recommendation, it escalates to human decision-makers.

Enterprise-Proven

Trusted by Merck, Amgen, Gilead, Regeneron, AbbVie, and Astellas. Enterprise-grade infrastructure serving organizations from emerging pharma through global pharma.

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WHO WE SERVE

Designed for organizations at every stage

  • Enterprise Pharma and Biotech
  • Emerging Pharma and Small Biotech

For organizations with established R&D operations and complex supplier portfolios: streamline existing vendor relationships, standardize processes across teams and sites, and gain the spend visibility and benchmarking data needed to optimize category strategy at scale.

Key outcome: 6.5X faster project start times. Unified operations across hundreds of supplier relationships.

For teams running discovery and preclinical programs without dedicated procurement staff: get enterprise-grade compliance, spend visibility, and supplier access from day one, without enterprise complexity. Virtual Lab Manager provides dedicated procurement support so scientists can focus on the science.

Key outcome: 88% faster supplier onboarding. Enterprise-grade processes without the overhead.

Enterprise Pharma and Biotech

For organizations with established R&D operations and complex supplier portfolios: streamline existing vendor relationships, standardize processes across teams and sites, and gain the spend visibility and benchmarking data needed to optimize category strategy at scale.

Key outcome: 6.5X faster project start times. Unified operations across hundreds of supplier relationships.

Emerging Pharma and Small Biotech

For teams running discovery and preclinical programs without dedicated procurement staff: get enterprise-grade compliance, spend visibility, and supplier access from day one, without enterprise complexity. Virtual Lab Manager provides dedicated procurement support so scientists can focus on the science.

Key outcome: 88% faster supplier onboarding. Enterprise-grade processes without the overhead.

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Resources

Bridging the Gap: Translating Preclinical Biomarkers to Clinical Success
Supplier Management & Orchestration

Bridging the Gap: Translating Preclinical Biomarkers to Clinical Success

Lab Startup Playbook: Building Your Minimum Viable Laboratory
Industry Insights & Thought Leadership

Lab Startup Playbook: Building Your Minimum Viable Laboratory

Buyer’s Guide Capability Deep Dive: Reimagining Customization & Integration in External R&D
Industry Insights & Thought Leadership

Buyer’s Guide Capability Deep Dive: Reimagining Customization & Integration in External R&D

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is R&D supplier orchestration?

R&D supplier orchestration is the coordination of every operational step required to work with external scientific partners: sourcing, qualifying, contracting, managing projects, processing payments, and tracking performance. Science Exchange built this as a unified platform because life sciences organizations were managing these steps across disconnected systems, spreadsheets, and manual workflows. The result was weeks of delay before a single experiment could begin. Orchestration replaces that fragmentation with a single structured workflow from request to payment.

How is Science Exchange more than a marketplace?

A marketplace helps you find suppliers. Science Exchange manages the entire relationship from first request through final payment. We handle compliance verification, execute contracts under one master agreement covering thousands of pre-qualified partners, process milestone-based payments, and generate spend analytics across your full R&D supplier portfolio. The finding-a-supplier step was never the hard part. The hard part was everything that came after: the contracting, the compliance reviews, the payment reconciliation. That is what we built the platform to solve.

Which R&D functions does Science Exchange support?

Science Exchange supports the full R&D outsourcing lifecycle across preclinical research, clinical trials, HEOR and real-world evidence studies, and laboratory services. Each solution area is built on the same platform infrastructure, so compliance, contracting, and payment workflows are consistent whether a team is sourcing a bioanalytical assay or coordinating a multi-site clinical study. We work with R&D teams and procurement leaders across pharma, biotech, and life sciences organizations.

Why do pharma and biotech companies need a dedicated R&D procurement platform?

Generic procurement tools were designed for indirect spend categories: office supplies, IT services, facilities. They were not built for the complexity of scientific outsourcing, where supplier qualification involves technical capabilities, regulatory compliance, and often highly specialized expertise. Science Exchange was purpose-built for this environment. Our supplier network is pre-qualified for life sciences work, our contracts are structured for scientific deliverables, and our compliance workflows reflect the regulatory requirements pharma and biotech teams actually face.

Can Science Exchange work alongside our existing procurement systems?

Yes. Science Exchange integrates with enterprise systems like SAP, Oracle, Coupa, and Workday. We are not replacing your ERP or P2P layer. We handle the R&D-specific supplier orchestration that sits between your internal systems and your external scientific partners: the sourcing, compliance, contracting, and payment workflows that horizontal tools were never designed to manage. That complementary positioning is why organizations run Science Exchange alongside their existing infrastructure, not instead of it.