Specification Services

We review contract specifications and drawings on owner's behalf considering quality, usability, operational safety, cost and consistency to the contract. We also give advice on contractual terms and general newbuilding project management.

Yard Capability Assessments

The current demand for more shipbuilding capacity sees a growth in new fields and the development of existing yards. DNV actively participates in this market, having long standing insight in most shipyards through our local offices world wide, and with consultants with previous experience working in shipyards. We have established methodology and tools designed to pin-point the client's objective and carry out the work efficiently.

The objectives of DNV's yard selection support services are to:

• Assists ship-owners and financiers in screening and benchmarking yards' capabilities to deliver to cost, quality and schedule.

• Assist in monitoring the quality and progress of the product during construction

• To assist shipyards in their development process; a competitive yard meeting international market requirements and expectations
  

Keeping an Owner's perspective we cover all relevant aspects of yard operations and management in the assessment:

• Business and Strategy

• Management

• Commerce and Finance

• Engineering and Production

• Safety, Security and the Environment
  

Technical Bid Evaluation

We support our clients in the bid evaluating process, also by utilizing a tool that provides objective ratings of the different bids. This provides an efficient basis for clients to score the different bidders.

Project references

• Specification review

• Yard selection for owner

• Bid evaluation & vegotiation support - passenger ferries

• Bid evaluation for pilot organisation

• Capability assessments for clients at over 35 shipbuilding and offshore yards world-wide including China, Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Dubai, Romania, Poland, Norway, Finland, Bangladesh and South Korea.