Tender alongside a new mothership
The mothership build manager is running a 60m project and doesn't have bandwidth or specialist knowledge for the tender. We slot in as the tender lead.
Service
New-Build Management
We run the tender or chase-boat new-build on the owner's behalf, from contract signature to delivery. Specialist tender oversight inside the wider mothership project team.
Project length12-24months typical
Yard visitsMonthlywith photo-log
Warranty review6 + 12months post-delivery
Engagement
How the engagement runs
Pre-contract review
We read the proposed build contract, technical specification, and payment milestones. We flag the gaps before the contract is signed.
Contract and deposit
We attend signature and arrange the deposit through escrow where appropriate.
Design freeze and engineering review
We attend the design-freeze meeting and review the engineering package against the operational brief and the mothership integration.
Build supervision
Monthly yard visits with photo-log reporting, plus milestone inspections at lamination start, structural close-out, systems installation, and pre-paint.
FAT and sea trial
Factory acceptance and sea trial with the captain present, including specific tests for the launch-and-recovery interface, certification requirements, and operational scenarios in the brief.
Acceptance, delivery, and warranty
Snag-list close-out, formal acceptance, handover to transport, and a structured warranty review at six months and twelve months.
Triggers
When to call us in
Standalone significant build
A custom limousine or chase boat above 12m where the order is large enough to warrant third-party representation at the yard.
Recovery brief
An existing build that has gone off-schedule or off-spec. Hardest engagement, often the most valuable.
Background and detail
The work is to be the tender specialist on a multi-disciplinary project team, not to compete with the mothership build manager. On a typical 60m new-build the project director is running architecture, hull, machinery, interior, AV, and certification across two or three thousand line items. The tender slot is one of those items, and it is the easiest to get wrong because the assumptions made in the early concept rarely hold up against the boat that actually fits the garage.
Our job is to be the person in the room when the tender decisions get made: at design freeze, at the lift-system geometry meeting, at the painting handover, and at sea trial. We bring the operational brief into rooms where it would otherwise be assumed.
Recovery briefs are a particular subset: an existing build that has gone off-schedule or off-spec, where the owner needs an independent project manager to reset the project. These are the hardest engagements because the contractual position is usually messy by the time we arrive, but they are often the engagements where the value of independent oversight is clearest.
Talk to us
Brief us on a new-build management.
Send the mothership, the programme, and the role you need filled. A response follows within 48 hours.