Building procurement for tomorrow.

Supporting procurement teams for over 15 years. From building capability to delivering social outcomes — and everything in between.

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What we do

Five ways we build better procurement

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Learning & development

Skills assessment, 14 facilitated training workshop topics, and leadership coaching.

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Social & sustainable procurement

Social value, Indigenous procurement, ESG and modern slavery.

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03

Operating model design

Diagnose, design, implement and embed a function built to deliver your organisational strategy and benefits.

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Mentoring & business capability

Expert support for social enterprises, First Nations businesses and SMEs — including pro bono programs.

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AI & technology

CPO360 — spend intelligence, savings tracking, capability assessment and Board reporting in one platform.

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In their words

“I have worked with Dan and Chris for more than ten years, across three organisations. They are the people I call when the problem is real — because they have sat in the chair, they tell you the truth, and they leave the team better than they found it.”

Chief procurement officer · Australian public sector
Experience
Deeply experienced procurement practitioners.

Our people have spent their careers inside procurement functions — leading teams, running category strategies, negotiating the difficult contracts and answering to Boards for the results.

That depth means we understand your context quickly, and the advice we give has been tested in practice rather than drawn from a methodology.

Why bluenorth

What working with us looks like

Senior attention throughout

Dan or Chris is on every engagement start to finish, with specialist associates matched to the problem.

Deliver and embed change

We leave your team with the tools, skills and confidence to sustain improvement long after we have gone.

Technology-enabled

CPO360 gives you data-driven insight to guide capability development and track progress.

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Our commitment

Social purpose is in our DNA.

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Reinvested
50%

Of all profits are invested in organisations and programs working with vulnerable communities across Australia and the region.

Subsidised
Pro bono and low bono

Programs so social enterprises and First Nations businesses can access the expertise they need to grow and win work.

Built in
Every project

Supporting organisations to deliver social and environmental impact is built into everything we deliver.

Technology platform

CPO360

Twelve integrated apps — from spend intelligence to social value — feeding one Board-ready dashboard.

Savings tracking to demonstrate your ROI
Develop category strategies
Identify social value
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CPO performance dashboard
$24.6M
Savings delivered
↑ 12% vs target
72%
Spend under mgmt
↑ 8pp YoY
71%
Team capability
↑ vs benchmark
Maturity — 12 dimensions
Category mgmt
82%
Strategy
78%
Sustainability
52%
Digital
48%
Our founders

Decades of procurement experience

Two of Australia's most experienced procurement practitioners, each with more than twenty years leading procurement functions and transformations across the public and private sectors.

Chris Newman

Chris Newman

Co-founder & director · GAICD

Co-founded ArcBlue alongside Dan, building it into one of Asia-Pacific's premier procurement consultancies before its acquisition. Deeply focused on social value and community impact.

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Dan Fielding

Dan Fielding

Co-founder & director · FCIPS

Two decades of hands-on experience across public sector, healthcare, infrastructure and financial services, and an advocate for demonstrating procurement's value to Boards.

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