COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES AS CRITERIA FOR SELECTION OF THE WINNER OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN THE BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY OF UKRAINE (BASED ON ADAPTATION OF JAPANESE EXPERIENCE)

Abstract

The article examines the need to expand the possibilities of using the competitive advantages of enterprises of the bridge construction industry of Ukraine in public procurement, based on adaptation to the Japanese experience. It was found that in Ukraine, the main criterion for selecting the winner of public procurement in the bridge construction industry is a low price and a set of standard criteria that the bidding company must have. The possibilities of the Japanese experience of competitive bidding in the bridge construction industry are considered. During the research, common characteristics with Ukraine and additional opportunities in the use of competitive advantages of companies during public procurement in bridge construction were revealed. The need to develop feedback with bidders for the implementation of the transfer of innovative technologies in the construction of bridges in Ukraine, based on the Japanese methods of selecting the winner "technical proposal, integrated evaluation system" and "value engineering (VE) system" was established. The need to introduce competitive bidding in the field of bridge construction in Ukraine into a separate selective form of bidding, with the possibility of using different methods of selecting the winner, based on the Japanese experience, was revealed.