By including detailed information in your profile, you increase the chances of receiving RFQs. Following the creation of your profile, after you have contacted us, you will be guided to fill – in information on the following: All the technical equipment that your company can provide service for. All services (overhauling, reconditioning, upgrade, repairs, troubleshooting, etc) for each equipment that your company can perform. The ports where your company has workshops and the areas where your service engineers can attend. All certifications that your company holds, i.e. maker or Classification Societies approvals.

By using bid2board you gain visibility to ship owners / managers who can otherwise be difficult or costly to reach. You can reduce the time spent in service arrangements, while performing same in a transparent and controlled manner. The automated process and data provided during the bidding process allows you to have insights on the competition and improve your offers. By analyzing data derived from the platform you can improve the services your offer, identify customer needs better and grow your business by increasing your service volume.

The platform operates by matching the requested service with service suppliers capable of performing the requested service. The matching algorithm is based on the information included in your profile for the services that your company can provide and matches this information to the details included in the service request from the ship manager. The ship owner / manager may choose whether the service is performed by a local supplier only or whether travelling service suppliers may be contacted to provide a quotation as well. Finally, the ship owner / manager may choose the certification necessary that a service supplier should be able to demonstrate (i.e. approved by a specific Classification Society or maker).

You do not pay if you don’t get paid. You can contact us and create your profile with bid2board completely free. There is a yearly maintenance fee for using the platform which will become applicable only after the first order confirmation that you will receive from a ship owner / manager. Afterwards, you have the option to pay as you use the platform with a fixed fee for each confirmed service awarded to you, or purchase “service bundles” of 10, 20, 50, 100 or 200 services at a discount.

bid2board does not interfere with the invoicing process. After the successful completion of a service the invoice is issued from the service supplier directly to the ship owner / manager.

Received offers are presented in Lump-Sum and Man-hours offers. For each category the ranking algorithm includes the suppliers’ rating, the quality of their spare parts (original, OEM, reconditioned, non-original). Thus, in some cases an offer standing in first place may not be necessarily the cheapest one.

The platform offers the flexibility to service suppliers to organize their offer in whichever way they prefer.