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Turn a work list into tenders.

A shipyard or refit period can mean dozens of jobs. Instead of writing a tender for each, upload the yard's work list and MBN turns the ones that go out to contractors into ready-to-review drafts, scope drafted and budget carried, in one pass.

Goal

Turn a shipyard or refit work list into draft tenders in one pass.

Before you start

An approved vessel organization, and a work list (a PDF or photo, or an .xlsx / .csv).

Time

About 10 minutes for a full list.

Version

Reflects the List Assistant (work list), live August 2026.

01

Open Import from Tenders

From your Tenders area, choose to import a work list. It's built for a shipyard period: turn a whole list into tenders at once, instead of one at a time.

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The import-a-work-list option in the vessel's Tenders area.

02

Upload your work list

Drop in the yard's spec as a PDF or a photo, or a spreadsheet (.xlsx or .csv). MBN reads the full grid, row by row, and throws out the header and total rows.

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Uploading a shipyard work list to MBN.

03

Confirm the columns

The engine detects your columns, including the one that says who does each job. Check it mapped them right, and correct and re-read if anything is off. It never invents: what's blank on your list stays blank.

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Confirming the detected columns, including the who-does-it column.

04

Pick the jobs to tender

MBN pre-ticks the jobs marked to go out to contractors, so you're not starting from zero. Tick or untick to land on exactly the ones you want to send.

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The job checklist, with contractor jobs pre-ticked.

05

Review your draft tenders

Each job you kept becomes a service draft: MBN's Scope Assistant writes a clean, biddable scope from the task, and the budget from your list comes across. Everything is a draft, so you review each on the normal edit page and publish when it's ready.

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The draft tenders created from the work list, ready to review and publish.

What happens next

You've turned a work list into a stack of tenders in minutes. Publish them to reach matching providers, or send any single one straight to a provider as a Direct Request instead.

Turn your list into tenders

Log in and open Tenders to import a work list. New to MBN? Request free access first.