MBN gives the vessel side one place to govern its contracts: publish a defined scope, receive bids against that exact scope, keep every clarification on the record, and award under explicit authority. It's tendering held to an institutional standard: the discipline of formal procurement, without the bureaucracy. Built by someone who has worked both sides of the tender: defining the scope from vessel operations, and bidding for the work as a service provider.
For owners' offices, vessel managers, captains, and chief engineers, MBN turns contracting from a chain of emails into a governed record. You publish what you need done, once, as a defined scope. Matching service providers receive it automatically: MBN Tender Distribution routes each tender to the providers whose engineering categories and service sub-regions fit, so your reach grows without a vendor list to maintain. Active coverage today is the United States and the Caribbean, with the Mediterranean and Central America built in for expansion.
Every bid answers that same published scope. Every clarification is recorded on the tender, not scattered across inboxes. Every award names who authorized it, and when. So when the invoice arrives, and it always arrives, it traces cleanly back to a scope, a bid, and an authority.
Registration is a guided, autosaving flow: sign up and confirm your details, build your vessel profile (legal entity plus the vessel's operational identity), assign your team's roles (Admin as legal representative, captain, chief engineer), keep Admin yourself or hand it to the owner, then submit for MBN officer review. You can leave and resume from any device, and finish in about 20 minutes.
See the full step-by-step guide →An MBN officer reviews each submission. On approval, your organization is formed and your dashboard unlocks. If changes are requested or it's rejected, you'll see the reason and can act from the same Awaiting Approval suite.
Tendering is live. From your vessel dashboard, you can:
Define the scope: what work needs doing, what timeline, what parameters matter. MBN Tender Distribution emails your tender to every service provider whose engineering categories and service sub-regions match, so you don't curate or maintain the list. Every matched provider receives the same defined scope; bids land back on the tender record.
Service providers with matching engineering categories are notified. Their bids answer the exact scope you defined, not interpretations of it.
Questions and follow-ups from service providers are recorded against the tender. When you review bids later, you see the conversation that shaped each one. No separate inbox, no lost context.
Award happens through the platform with an explicit decision recorded. The successful service provider knows immediately; unsuccessful bidders see the outcome. The award is attributable, not implied.
That structure (defined scope → structured bids → recorded clarifications → attributable award) is what governs every tender on MBN.
Once tendering is grounded, MBN extends governance into the rest of the contract lifecycle. Activating in January 2027:
None of this is live yet. We label it explicitly so you can plan for it, not so you mistake it for what's available today.
The platform is live now, and access is open. Request free access, and the moment our team approves your organization you can start publishing tenders. No waiting, no credit card, and nothing charged before October 1, 2026.
What that means:
Requesting access early means your first tender publishes as soon as you're approved, and you get the longest possible free runway before billing begins October 1, 2026.
Request free access below. Once our team reviews and approves it, you're in a real account: build your vessel profile, assign roles, and publish your first tender. Free during launch, with no charge before October 1, 2026.
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