In May 2019 The Reporter said the Public Procurement and Property Disposal Service awarded two companies, including relative newcomer GEM CORP Commodities Trading SA along with AGRO CORP, a large wheat supply contract for the Ethiopian market.
Winning a big staple tender matters because wheat imports soak scarce foreign exchange, and because food security agencies and millers depend on who can deliver tonnage on time.
The newbie-winner angle sat beside the same season’s larger 600,000-tonne purchase stories and showed how tender lists shift even when the underlying FX crunch stays the same.
Kept as food and trade archive, the wheat-contract award is a dated procurement marker for Ethiopia’s import dependence.
Sources: The Reporter Ethiopia