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Book a discovery call. It takes 30 minutes. No preparation required, no commitment, and no follow-up from a sales team. It is a conversation to understand your situation, work out whether D1 Advisory is the right fit, and if it is, to agree on what a sensible scope looks like.
Yes. All engagements operate under professional confidentiality obligations. D1 Advisory does not disclose client information, share commercially sensitive details, or use client data for any purpose outside the scope of the engagement. An NDA can be executed prior to any engagement that requires it, which is standard for financial services, government, and organisations with material confidentiality obligations.
It depends on the scope. A single advisory conversation for a specific purchasing decision can be completed in a few hours. A process design project or capability assessment typically runs across several weeks. D1 Advisory does not lock clients into retainers or long-term contracts by default. Engagements are scoped to what is actually needed.
D1 Advisory has experience across government and public sector, financial services and superannuation, health and community services, infrastructure and built environment, not-for-profit and incorporated associations, education and professional development, technology and professional services, and corrections and justice. The sector experience section of this page shows the types of work delivered in each area.
A management consultant typically works at the strategic level and presents recommendations. D1 Advisory works at the operational level and delivers outcomes. The difference is between being told what to do and having someone help you do it. D1 Advisory is a practitioner, not a theorist. The advice comes from having been in the room for these conversations, on both sides of the table.
Yes. D1 Advisory specifically works with small to medium businesses that do not have a full-time procurement function but still make significant purchasing decisions. You do not need to spend a minimum amount or have a formal procurement team in place. If a purchasing decision matters to your business, this is the right conversation to have.
Procurement is the process of deciding what to buy, from whom, on what terms, and at what cost. Most businesses do it every day without recognising it as a discipline. When it goes wrong, it costs money, time, and in some cases professional relationships. Procurement advisory means having a specialist in your corner who has no stake in which supplier you choose, who can help you define your requirements clearly before you go to market, evaluate your options properly, and commit to the right supplier on the right terms.
Yes. All engagements operate under professional confidentiality obligations. D1 Advisory does not disclose client information, share commercially sensitive details, or reference client engagements publicly. A mutual NDA can be executed prior to any engagement where required.
Yes. The DiSC Profile is available as a standalone engagement for individuals or teams. It is also available as a component of a Capability Assessment, where the behavioural data is integrated with the skills and process findings to give a complete picture of your procurement function.
Yes. D1 Advisory regularly works alongside existing procurement, finance, legal, and operations teams. The role is to add specialist procurement capability and build internal capability as we go, not to replace what is already in place.
C3D stands for Continuous Client Capability Development. In practice it means every engagement is structured so that your team learns alongside the delivery. We teach the procurement thinking behind each decision, partner on the execution, and hand over structured materials at the close of the engagement. Your team is more capable at the end than they were at the start. That is the measure we hold ourselves to.
Most enterprise engagements begin with a Capability Assessment. It gives you a clear baseline, a findings report, and a set of prioritised recommendations. From there, the right combination of Enhance services is scoped to your organisation's profile and readiness.
Quickly. The discovery call takes fifteen minutes. If the fit is right, scope and terms are agreed shortly after. The retainer is available to be activated from that point. If a specific purchasing decision is already in progress, that is a reasonable place to start the conversation.
Yes. The Advisory Retainer is particularly well suited to small and medium businesses that make significant purchasing decisions but do not have an internal procurement function to call on. Probity Services are more commonly required by government and large enterprise clients with formal public accountability obligations, but are available to any organisation that requires independent oversight of a formal procurement process.
Probity advisory involves working alongside a procurement process to ensure decisions are made fairly and in accordance with governance requirements. Probity auditing involves independently reviewing a completed process after the fact and producing a formal audit report. D1 Advisory can provide either service, but cannot serve as both probity advisor and probity auditor on the same procurement activity. This is a professional independence requirement.
An Advisory Retainer is tailored to your business activity and scaled to your engagement level. There is no one-size-fits-all arrangement because no two businesses buy the same way. The retainer gives you a direct line to procurement expertise across your buying cycle: supplier selection, negotiation positioning, contract review, and ad-hoc guidance as decisions arise. Scope and pricing are agreed at the discovery call.
Yes. All engagements operate under professional confidentiality obligations. D1 Advisory does not disclose client information, share commercially sensitive details, or reference client engagements publicly. An NDA can be executed ahead of any engagement where required.
That is entirely fine. Not every engagement is a long-term arrangement. D1 Advisory regularly supports businesses through a single contract review, a specific supplier negotiation, or a one-off tendering process. The scope is set to what you actually need.
Pricing is tailored to scope and engagement level. D1 Advisory does not publish lump-sum prices for most services because no two businesses buy the same way. The Procurement Readiness Assessment is free and takes two minutes. It will tell you which service makes sense for where your business is right now and give you a starting point for the conversation.
Buying Resources is the self-serve option. You get a complete suite of procurement templates and frameworks, onboarding support, and quarterly Q&A sessions to use on your own terms. An Advisory Retainer gives you a direct line to a procurement specialist when a decision is too consequential to navigate alone. Many businesses start with Buying Resources and add a retainer as the stakes increase.
Not every small business needs ongoing procurement support. What most businesses do need is the right support at the right moment: when a contract is being signed, when a supplier is pushing back on price, or when a purchasing decision is large enough that getting it wrong has real consequences. D1 Advisory's services are scoped to fit that reality. You do not commit to more than you need.
Yes. All engagements operate under professional confidentiality obligations. D1 Advisory does not disclose client information, share commercially sensitive details, or reference client engagements publicly. A mutual NDA can be executed prior to any engagement involving commercially sensitive information, which is standard practice for financial services, government, and organisations with material confidentiality obligations.
Yes. D1 Advisory has experience across federal, state, and local government procurement. This includes probity oversight, capability assessment, process design, and embedded fractionalised delivery. Government procurement operates under specific governance and compliance obligations, and that context is built into how every government engagement is structured.
Yes. D1 Advisory regularly works alongside existing procurement, finance, legal, and operations teams. The role is to add specialist procurement capability, not to replace what is already in place. Engagements are scoped accordingly.
A management consultant typically works at the strategic level and presents recommendations. D1 Advisory works at the operational level and delivers outcomes. The difference is between being told what to do and having someone help you do it. D1 Advisory is a practitioner, not a theorist. The advice comes from having been in the room for these conversations, on both sides of the table.
C3D stands for Continuous Client Capability Development. In practice it means every engagement is structured so that your team learns alongside the delivery. We do not create dependency. We teach procurement thinking as we work, partner on complex decisions, and hand over with your team in a stronger position than when we started. This is how our engagements are scoped and how they are measured.
Most enterprise engagements begin with a Capability Assessment. It gives you a clear baseline, a findings report, and a set of prioritised recommendations. From there, the right combination of services is scoped to your organisation's profile and readiness. If there is a specific, time-sensitive procurement activity that needs immediate support, that is also a valid starting point.
