This track walks the people inside a vessel organization, owners' offices, vessel managers, captains, chief engineers, through how MBN works, in the order you'll actually encounter each part.
A vessel organization on MBN is the side that publishes tenders, evaluates bids, and awards contracts under explicit authority. That work is structurally different from receiving a tender as a service provider or overseeing a portfolio as a management company. This track teaches what you publish, who has authority to publish it, and how the rest of the contract lifecycle works around you: all of it live today.
Work through them in order, Getting started first, then Tendering. More lessons land as we write them.
Sign up, build your vessel profile, assign your team's roles, Admin (legal representative), captain, chief engineer, keep Admin yourself or hand it to the owner, and submit for MBN officer review.
Who holds which authority on your org: Admin, Captain, Chief Engineer, Vessel Manager, and the optional Co-Admin layer. What each role does today on the live platform, and what each gains at every milestone from the free trial through workrooms.
Add the machinery aboard to your Equipment library once, with its real specs, then attach it to any tender as 'Equipment in scope' so bidders know exactly which unit the job concerns.
Add the consumables and spares you order to your Parts library. On a goods tender, your parts become the line items providers price against: defined once, reused every time.
The full flow: pick a tender type, write the scope, add equipment in scope and (for goods) parts as line items, set urgency and regions, then publish, reaching every matching provider.
Give your trusted registered service providers first dibs: invite them ahead of the open market, with a 48-hour window to accept before the tender opens wider.
Bring an outside company into a single tender with an emailed link, no account, no cost. Their quote lands in your comparison right beside your registered bidders.
Amendments, scope clarifications, extending the deadline, scheduling or opening early, and cancelling, everything that can change after a tender is published.
Answer bidder questions on the private per-provider thread, and run the site-visit request → propose → confirm handshake.
Close bidding, compare quotes side by side, and award under explicit authority: the moment a tender becomes a contract.
How execution moves from an awarded tender into a governed workroom: milestones, evidence submission, change orders, commissioning acceptance, warranty closure.
The Roles lesson walks who holds which authority on your vessel organization, what each role can do today on the live platform, and what each role gains at every milestone from the free trial through v2 in January 2027.