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Vendor Due Diligence for Maritime Operations

One vendor hit a sanctions list halfway through a live port call. Your ops lead didn’t check before the PO went out. Base is vendor due diligence that checks every company before the engagement, against every list that matters, before the charge is even created.

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SANCTIONS LICENSING SAFETY FILINGS

What Base checks before you engage a vendor.

Is this company on any sanctions list?

Cross-referenced against every active global sanctions list that matters for maritime work. Results before the first charge is created.

Does this carrier hold an active license?

Maritime carrier registration, freight broker authority, federal entity status. Expired licenses surface before the PO ships.

What is their safety record?

Inspection history, incident data, operator compliance scores. The record every port agent wants to see but nobody has time to pull.

What vessels does this operator actually run?

Vessel attribution and fleet composition. Verify that the company on paper matches the ships on the water.

Do they deliver on government contracts?

Federal award history across decades of contract data. Track record for the vendors asking to handle critical cargo.

What is in their public filings?

Public company filings and financial health indicators. The signal finance teams look for before extending credit terms.

How a vendor check happens in your workflow.

1

Search the company

Enter the company name or identifier. Base runs the check in under two seconds against every list, registry, and public filing that matters.

2

See the full dossier on one screen

Every flag, licensing status, safety record, vessel attribution, and filing in a single view. Export the dossier for your compliance audit trail in one click.

3

Attach it to the job

Save the dossier to the vendor record inside your job. Approve or reject the engagement with the evidence next to the decision.

Every vendor check lives inside the job it belongs to.

When you create a job with a new vendor, Base runs the check automatically and attaches the dossier to the vendor record. No separate portal, no switching context. The check becomes part of the job history and feeds your invoice approval workflow, QuickBooks, and Xero sync.

Vendor dossier
Atlantic Maritime Services
attached to JOB-24-1847 · MV Atlantic Pioneer
CLEARED
Sanctions lists
Clear · 6 lists
Federal licensing
Active · valid through 2027
Safety record
0 reportable incidents (24 mo)
Fleet attribution
3 vessels operated
Contract history
14 federal awards
Public filings
Private company
Checked in 1.8s · attached to audit trail

What buyers ask before rolling out vendor due diligence.

"We already use a sanctions screening tool."

Base runs on top of your existing screening. You get the sanctions check plus licensing, safety, federal contract history, vessel attribution, and public filings in one search. One audit trail, one dossier, one vendor record.

"Our vendor list is small. We know who we work with."

Port agents use 40+ vendors per job. Principal reviewers need audit trails for every charge. Once you count every fuel vendor, launch service, and crew agency, the list is always bigger than it looks.

"We have compliance requirements a simple check won't satisfy."

Dossiers include the primary data that your compliance team already relies on, formatted for audit export. The check becomes the artifact you need, not another tool to justify.

"How much faster is it, really?"

Principal reviewers using Base typically cut vendor qualification time from 2 days to 15 minutes. The dossier opens in 2 seconds, lives next to the job, and exports for audit on one click.

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Check a real vendor in the demo.

Bring a company name you have worked with, or the one you are about to engage. We will run the check live in your own tenant, show you the full dossier, and walk you through attaching it to a job. No prep, just bring a name.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Vendor due diligence is the process of verifying a company before you engage them in a transaction: checking their legal status, sanctions exposure, licensing, safety record, financial health, and operational track record. For maritime operations, it means knowing whether the fuel vendor, crewing agency, launch service, or subcontractor you are about to hire is clear to work with, before the charge is created and the service begins. Good vendor due diligence turns what used to take a compliance analyst two days into a check that runs in seconds, with an audit trail attached to the job.
You search the company name or identifier. Base cross-references every relevant list and registry in under two seconds and returns a full dossier: sanctions status, active licensing, safety record, fleet attribution, federal contract history, and any public filings. The dossier attaches to the vendor record inside your job, so every charge from that vendor carries the check next to it. When you reject a vendor, the reason and evidence live in the audit trail for the life of the job.
Base pulls from the primary data sources your compliance team already relies on for maritime vendor qualification: global sanctions lists, federal carrier and entity registries, safety inspection databases, vessel attribution records, federal contract histories, and public financial filings. The exact source map is part of the platform, but the dossier is labeled by the question it answers (sanctions clear? license active? incident history?) rather than the upstream provider, so the output is readable without an analyst background.
Yes. The hero form on this page runs a free check via the Base open data tool at open-gov.usebase.io/companies. No signup. Results in under two seconds. For full dossiers attached to vendor records and audit exports, that lives inside the platform and ships with every Base subscription.
Base runs sanctions screening as part of the vendor dossier, so most teams use it as a single entry point for the check. If you have an existing tool for sanctions specifically, the Base dossier extends the check with licensing, safety, filings, and vessel attribution. Both can run side by side; the vendor record stores the outcome of whichever check fired last.
Under two seconds for the initial dossier. Re-checks run on a cadence you configure per client, per job type, or per vendor (weekly, monthly, per engagement). The full audit trail covers every check, every flag, and every attached evidence file for the life of the vendor record.
Yes. Every dossier exports to a formatted audit file that your compliance team can attach to the engagement record. The export covers the check date, the data snapshots, the flagged items, and the reviewer signoff. This replaces the “who checked what, when” spreadsheet most teams maintain alongside their compliance workflow.
Vendor check access is role-based. Most teams give read access to ops leads and write access to compliance reviewers, but the permission model is configurable per organization. Guest reviewers from the principal side can see dossiers attached to their own jobs via Base Connect, without a full user license.

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