Independence charter
No commission. No contract. No conflict.
"Fee-only" is easy to claim. This charter sets out what Noyau Bleu does and does not accept, in enough detail for a procurement or audit function to hold us to it.
What we are paid by, and by whom.
We are paid only by the organization that receives our advice, on terms agreed in writing before the work starts. We do not accept, and will not accept:
- commissions on any lease, purchase, sale or financing;
- referral or introduction fees from brokers, landlords, developers, lenders or service providers;
- reseller, distributor or implementation-partner margins on any software, technology or equipment;
- contingency, success or gain-share fees tied to savings, transaction value or supplier selection;
- gifts, hospitality or travel from any supplier we may be asked to evaluate, beyond ordinary courtesy.
No supplier relationships to protect.
Noyau Bleu holds no partnership, alliance, preferred-vendor or reseller agreement with any facilities management provider, brokerage, technology vendor, contractor or consultancy. We do not sell or deliver the outsourced services we are asked to evaluate. If a supplier we assess for you is one we have advised in the past, we tell you before the work starts.
A written declaration for every mandate.
At the start of each engagement we provide a signed conflict-of-interest declaration covering the mandate, the suppliers in scope and any relationship that could reasonably be seen to affect our judgement. It is updated whenever the scope changes, and you may ask for it to be renewed at any point.
Your data stays yours.
Contracts, pricing, performance data and internal documents shared with us are held under your non-disclosure agreement, used for your mandate only, and returned or destroyed at the end of it on request. Nothing is reused for another client or for benchmarking without your explicit, written consent, and any benchmark we publish with consent is anonymized so that no organization or supplier can be identified.
We work inside your rules.
We sign your non-disclosure agreement and your supplier code of conduct. Procurement owns the process: we work within your procurement policy, your delegation of authority and, for public bodies, the public-contract rules that apply in Québec and Canada. We do not contact suppliers on your behalf without your instruction.
Regulated where regulation applies.
The founder holds a Chartered Real Estate Broker licence in Québec and is bound by the professional obligations that come with it, including the disclosure of any interest in a transaction. Where a mandate touches a transaction, our remuneration remains the agreed fee: we take no commission and no share of the transaction.
How to hold us to it.
This charter is part of every proposal we issue. If you believe we have fallen short of it, tell us in writing. We will respond within ten business days and, where a conflict is confirmed, withdraw from the affected work.