For Principals & EPCs

Subcontractor Management Software

Subcontractor management software for maritime contractors and EPCs. See and control every dollar your operators spend. Multi-stage invoice approvals, rate card enforcement, and one shared spend record your whole team reads from.

Platform Metrics
$1B+
Tracked Across
3 Years
35K+
Jobs
Managed
85K+
Charges
Captured
Approval workflows active
Live

The Spend Visibility Problem

Your operators work across dozens of ports, multiple currencies, and their own internal systems. You get a PDF invoice after the fact. No rate card validation. No structured approval. No way to compare what one agent charges in Houston versus another in Santos for the same service.

X
spend_tracker_v47_FINAL_v2.xlsx
Vendor
Invoice
Amount
Status
Agent A
#2847
$23,450
?
Agent B
#2846
???
?
Agent C
pending
stale
Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Re: Approval needed
> > > Can you approve lines 12-18?
> > Waiting on finance review
> Bumping this thread (day 6)
PDF
scan_invoice_untitled_03_FINAL.pdf
INVOICE
Services rendered$18,420
Handling$3,200
Rate variance?unclear
"Check with ops – is this the right rate??"
01

No rate enforcement

Agents invoice against charge codes you never agreed to. Deviations only surface when finance reviews the final bill.

02

Spend is invisible

Total project cost sits in spreadsheets across a dozen vendors. Nobody has a single number until month-end.

03

RFQs live in email

Service requests go out in attachments. Bids come back in different formats. Comparison is manual.

04

Approvals stall in inboxes

Invoices wait days for sign-off because there is no workflow, just forwarded emails and reply-all threads.

From RFQ to Payment in One System

The entire procurement-to-payment cycle runs in Base. No handoffs between systems. No data re-entry between stages.

1

Request & Bid

Define the service need with structured fields. Operators submit bids in the same format. Compare rates, vendor compliance, and vessel specs side by side.

2

Award & Execute

Winning bid converts to a live job automatically. The agent executes. Charges and expenses log against the job as services are delivered.

3

Approve & Pay

Multi-stage invoice review with line-item accept or reject. On approval, invoices push to accounting automatically.

How You Control Spend

Your Team Inside Every Vendor Org

Your staff don’t log into a portal to review static reports. They join each vendor’s org as members with scoped visibility. They see the same jobs, charges, and invoices your agents work in. Live data, not a copy of it.

When an agent creates a job, your team sees it. When charges are entered, your team sees the breakdown before the invoice is submitted. When a document is generated, your team can open it. The visibility is structural, not retroactive.

Team Members · Atlantic Maritime
JS
J. Santos
Operations Lead
MEMBER
MR
M. Rivera
Vessel Agent
MEMBER
KL
K. Lindqvist
Principal · Project Manager
GUEST
AB
A. Bakker
Principal · Finance
GUEST

Screen Every Vendor Before You Award

Compliance checks run automatically when you add a vendor to a bid pool or onboard a new operator. Six data sources, zero manual lookups.

Sanctions Lists

Global and domestic sanctions screening

Global Watchlists

Consolidated international sanctions and denied-party lists

Carrier Licenses

Maritime carrier license and bond verification

Federal Registration

Contractor registration and exclusion status

USCG

Vessel inspection scores and compliance history

Safety Records

Workplace safety and incident history

Every check leaves an audit trail. When compliance teams ask how you vetted a vendor, the answer is in the system.

$1B+

charges tracked across the platform

35,000+

jobs managed by maritime operators

85,000+

charges captured with full audit trail

3 stages

configurable approval workflow depth

Common Concerns

"Our agents won't adopt another tool."

80% activation rate. Agents adopt because the alternative is rebuilding spreadsheets and chasing email threads for every port call. The operators already on Base process 35,000+ jobs. This is how they work now.

"ROI is hard to prove when savings are spread across agents and ports."

Start with one project, one port. Track approval cycle time, rate card compliance, and invoice accuracy from day one. The data is there from the first job. Expand when the numbers justify it.

Control Every Dollar Across Your Vendor Network

Multi-stage approvals, rate card enforcement, and real-time spend visibility. Built for principals who manage maritime operations at scale.

Frequently Asked Questions

Invoices move through up to three approval stages: operations, finance, and project management. Each stage can approve or reject individual line items with documented reasons. The workflow is configurable per organization. Rejected items return to the operator with the reason attached, so revisions are specific rather than guesswork.
Yes. Contract rate cards define agreed rates per charge code per vendor. When a charge deviates from the contracted rate, the variance is visible during the approval process. Rate cards are enforced systemically, not by manual review.
Principal staff join each vendor organization as guest members with scoped visibility. They see jobs, charges, invoices, and documents within that org in real time. Access is permissioned per org, so each team member sees only the vendors they manage.
Six automated checks: domestic and international sanctions screening, global watchlist matching, carrier license verification, federal registration status, vessel inspection scores, and workplace safety records. Checks run when a vendor is added to a bid pool or onboarded to the platform.
Service requests go out with structured fields. Bids return in the same format for direct comparison. Award converts the winning bid into a live job with no re-entry. The entire cycle from request to job creation runs in one system, eliminating the email-and-spreadsheet handoffs that typically stretch procurement from days to weeks.

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