Methodological approaches to tender activity management at industrial engineering enterprises

The article is devoted to a methodological understanding of the tendering activity of industrial engineering enterprises that produce complex full–cycle equipment to meet the customer’s design requirements. The relevance of the topic is related to the growing share of purchases, where the competitiveness of the offer is formed at the intersection of engineering, commercial calculation and organizational discipline. The purpose of the work is to develop a logic for managing the tender process from the selection of an opportunity to the accumulation of experience after the completion of the procedure. The material is a corpus of modern peer–reviewed publications on bid management, proposal preparation, custom manufacturing, procurement management, and cross–functional interaction. The analytical part reveals the criteria for the decision on participation, the model of application preparation and ways to consolidate the tender knowledge. The practical value is associated with the application of the proposed logic in the work of tender, engineering and economic departments.

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