Your all in one platform to manage your offshore operations, fleet and documents.
A game-changing web platform that streamlines marine assurance activities for BVS's trusted clients, globally.
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Consultancy Engineering Services
Bureau Veritas Solutions Marine & Offshore offers effective consultancy engineering services, delivering pragmatic solutions for offshore industry sectors.
DP & Mission Critical Services
Our in-house team of experts covers all the specialities involved in DP systems and operations. We were among the first DP consultants to attain International Maritime Contractors Association (IMCA) accreditation.
Marine Operations Risks
With the support of Bureau Veritas Solutions (BVS) experts to understand and manage your marine risks, you can help to reduce the frequency and severity of marine operations incidents, reduce vessel downtime, improve project uptime, as well as learn from incidents when they happen.
An integrated platform for BVS’s key service lines.
Dynamic Positioning
Managing all aspects of DP assurance in a simple intuitive web platform, including Proving, Annual & 5-Yearly DP Trials, DP FMEA, Operations Manuals & Decision Support Tools, vessel findings status, calendar, and sharing selected details with prospective charterers. Transparency provided through storage of data-centric evidence.
Marine Operations
Seamless communication and document management throughout all stages of a project’s Marine Operations, from initial screening of vessel suitability and compliance to communication with vessel bridge, exchange of information and documentation, and adherence to specific client standards.
Client Marine Standards
Manage the Marine Standards for each client in the Portal, and check the adherence of prospective charter vessels to these standards. Give full transparency to the client on their charter fleet through the BVS Portal.
Features
Share and manage your documents
Easily upload, track, and collaborate on documentation, centralized and secure, with version history and role-based access for stakeholders.
From one to unlimited users
Scale effortlessly, from small teams to enterprise fleets. Manage roles, tasks, and visibility across users with ease.
Don’t miss a step with our checklists
Stay on course with structured task lists that guide you through compliance, operations, and technical evaluations.
Up-to-date on important certifications
Track and manage certifications in real-time. Ensure compliance and readiness across your fleet with visual status indicators.
Know where everything is at all time
Quickly locate critical vessel, project, or client information through an intuitive dashboard and smart filters.
Never miss and important date
With built-in calendar views and automatic reminders, you'll never overlook key submissions or renewal deadlines.
Manage your fleet
Gain a full overview of vessel assignments, operational status, and compliance progress in one integrated portal.
Get notified instantly
Receive real-time updates on task changes, document uploads, and new requests, so nothing falls through the cracks.
Visualise status of relevant documents
Monitor document progress and flag urgent matters with colour-coded, department-specific summaries.
A single, unified platform.
The BVS Portal is intended to become a management platform that addresses all of these pain points.
It materialises a vision that BVS has held for a number of years, to remain a provider of exceptional marine consultancy services, supported by a layer of digitisation that provides unrivalled customer engagement and support, with a vastly reduced admin footprint.
- Centralised document & task management
- Automated workflows for DP, Marine Ops & Standards
- Role-based access for BVS, vessel owners & charterers
Dashboard
A quick glance at what are the latest and most urgent matters.
- Latest alerts & urgent tasks (Inbox widget)
- News & platform updates feed
- Quick-access status summary (DP, Ops, Standards)
- Quick-access to clients, projects, vessels and other documents
Inbox
A complete log of all of the latest updates to the tasks relevant to the user.
News
This is where relevant updates to the platform or industry show up. These are updates made by BVS to the users of the platform.
These updates are tagged by urgency and by department and/or topic.
Status
Quick overview of the Vessels with the most pressing matters of each Service Department (DP, Marine Operations and Client Marine Standards) organized and color coded by urgency.
Clients
Here you can explore and find all clients while quickly understanding how many Projects and Vessels are currently assigned to each Client. Furthermore, you can check the current status of compliance of all vessels assigned to a client, with regards to DP, Marine Operations or Client Marine Standards.
Projects
Here you can explore and find all current and past projects while quickly understanding to what client it pertains and how many vessels are assigned to that project. Also visualizing the current status of each department - DP, Marine Operations or Client Marine Standards.
Vessels
Explore and find vessels relevant to the user while quickly understanding if it is assigned to any project and client, while also visualizing the current status of each department - DP, Marine Operations or Client Marine Standards.
Any department that shows up greyed out and with a lock is a Service that is currently not provived to the client, and either the client can ask for a consultation directly from the platform or BVS can send a email (even a recurring one to see if they are interested).
Users
This page will show all relevant users and their specific account info, such as: Name, Company, Email and Priveledges.
Calendar
An easy and intuitive way to get a quick overview of upcoming tasks.
A world-class team at your fingertips
Our global network of experts delivers a comprehensive range of marine consultancy services, combining technical precision with deep industry knowledge.
With decades of international experience, BVS brings together a diverse team of specialists including OVID and eCMID/eMISW accredited inspectors, marine survey professionals, MWS surveyors, DPO and DP maintenance-certified personnel, master mariners, naval architects, marine and structural engineers, marine logisticians, and HSSEQ consultants. Whether supporting operations offshore or providing strategic guidance onshore, our consultants are committed to upholding the highest standards of safety, compliance, and operational excellence.
Senior DP & Mission Critical Consultant
Alister Milne
Alister Milne brings 25 years of expertise across the marine & offshore energy sectors. Holding with a master’s degree in electrical & Electronic Engineering, he has spent most of his career as a consultant engineer in the marine consultancy sector, focussing on Dynamic Positioning systems. He has worked in this sector across the globe in a vast range of projects, from state-of-the-art newbuild vessels and MODUs to vessel life extension projects. He is an IMCA Accredited DP Trials & Assurance Practitioner and has been involved in all aspects related to the sector, from the DP FMEA and Trials aspects, to incident investigations and power system analyses as well as extensive involvement with W2W systems.
DP & Mission Critical Dept. Manager
Craig Styles
Craig Styles has over 15 years experience as a master’s degree qualified Electronic and Electrical Engineer with over 15 years’ experience in the Marine industry on projects, primarily related to Dynamically Positioned vessels, where he specialises in the FMEA and associated trials process, having held IMCA DP Trials & Assurance Practitioner accreditation since 2019. He has witnessed well over 100 DP trials on vessels worldwide and been involved in several incident investigations. Craig regularly represents the company at industry events and sits on the IMCA DP committee, where he provides his expertise to the industry through various sub-committees.
Senior DP & Mission Critical Consultant
Dan Tough
Dan Tough has over 6 years in the marine consultancy industry as a DP Practitioner, having previously worked as an ROV Technician for 4 years with a global organisation, providing him with a high level of expertise in a range of survey/inspection, installation and maintenance projects in the global energy subsea/marine sector. He is a degree qualified Electrical & Electronic Engineer and also holds an HND in Mechanical / Electrical Engineering and is an IMCA Accredited DP Trials & Assurance Practitioner. His current role has extensive involvement developing FMEAs and associated trials programmes for a wide range of DP vessels, as well as providing third party technical support to clients. His experience with ROVs has provided him with the necessary competence at completing IMCA R-006 audits.
Principal Marine Consultant
David Allan
David Allan has over 8 years of experience in the marine industry, having previously served with the Police for 8 years prior to a cadetship with Maersk Supply Services. David holds a Degree in Marine Operations, an HNC in Engineering Systems and an OOW Deck STCW II/1 Certificate of Competency. He is also a member of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners. He is a Certified ISM Lead Auditor and has provided services to Clients as a marine surveyor, offshore marine representative and onshore marine representative. David specialises in Condition Surveys, ISM Internal Auditing, MODU surveys and Walk-to-Work assurance services. He assists the Marine & HSSEQ Manager in the management of the Marine group.
Marine & HSSEQ Manager (Team and Commercial Lead)
Fergus Napier
Fergus Napier brings over 25 years of expertise in marine operations and total quality, occupation health & safety and environmental management in the marine and offshore industry, backed by a MEng in Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering. He is a Chartered Engineer accredited by EC UK, is a Member of RINA and is a certified QMS Lead Auditor, certified Lifting Equipment & Lifting Operations Examiner and is IOSH Managing Safely and Kongsberg DP Surveyor qualified. Fergus comes from a diverse marine background having worked as sea, for Class (engineering and survey), for a marine design consultancy as a Naval Architect, for an arctic engineering consultancy, for marine contractors/ vessel operators, as a marine technical authority for a floating production facility, as a Project Naval Architect in a shipyard and as an engineering and marine consultant. He acts as the Subject Matter Expert for all Marine Assurance activities. Fergus is also responsible for maintaining the BVS Business Management System (BMS) and its ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 management standards certification.
Principal DP & MC Consultant
Gary Pottinger
Gary Pottinger has over 14 years of experience in the marine consultancy industry, as a degree qualified Electrical & Electronic Engineer. He has further continued his development by gaining Chartership with the IET and being an IMCA Accredited DP Trials & Assurance Practitioner. His consultancy experience, underpinned by broad knowledge of operation and malfunction of electrical systems is specialised in the Failure Modes and Effects Analysis of Dynamic Positioning systems as well as mission critical equipment, such as cranes, pipelay & W2W systems.
DP & Mission Critical Dept. Technical Lead
Stephen Gallagher
Stephen Gallagher is a degree qualified Electronic & Electrical Engineer, with over 11 years in the marine industry, primarily focussing on Dynamic Positioning vessels, where he specialises in the FMEA and associated trials process, having held IMCA DP Trials & Assurance Practitioner accreditation since 2019. Stephen regularly extends his expertise to Mission Critical (W2W, Pipelay, Cablelay, Motion Compensated Pile Gripper) systems, in particular with novel designs. His role as Technical Lead of the department involves maintaining a technical standard across all deliverables and providing training to colleagues and providing Technical Authority services. His experience in working across a wide variety of projects in the sector enables him to assist clients on all manner of requirements, throughout the various challenges faced.
Knowledge at your fingertips
Discover insights, updates, and observations from the world of DP and Marine Operations.
Why Digital Evidence is the Future of DP Assurance
As marine assurance continues to evolve, digital record-keeping is no longer a bonus, it's the baseline. Transparent, data-centric documentation makes it easier to validate DP trials and findings while fostering trust with charterers and authorities.
11th May 2025
3 Common DP Gaps, and How to Stay Ahead
Every year, our teams spot recurring issues during DP audits. From outdated manuals to incomplete proving trials, small oversights can have big implications. The good news? Most are preventable with proactive tools and clear workflows.
26th April 2025
Is Your Vessel Project-Ready? Key Checks Before Mobilisation
Before committing to a vessel, a few targeted checks can save time and headaches. We break down the core items, certifications, standards compliance, and comms readiness, that can make or break a successful operation.
6th March 2025