BIDDING STRATEGIES IN JAPANESE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS Bidding behavior that can be read from the disclosed tender data

This statistical research is for the understanding of the bidding strategy by analyzing the tender results that has come to be disclosed in Japan recently. The used data is about 4,000 occurrences of tenders on 398 public works that has been ordered in the Regional Construction Bureau of the Ministry of Construction in the spring of 1999. As a result of analysis, compared with some researches in Western countries, Japanese construction enterprises become sensible as a whole. Various conjectures are possible, such as a difference of bidding system, the competition environment that construction enterprises are put, some doubt on data authenticity. It is a future research subject about this.