Tenders @AFCA
Call for Service Providers: Taste of Harvest Competition Auditor
Added on: November 13, 2025
Submission Deadline: December 20, 2025
The Taste of Harvest (ToH) Competition is AFCA’s flagship national and regional cupping competition for fine coffees across Africa. It promotes excellence in coffee production, elevates emerging origins and producers, and strengthens market access through the Taste of Harvest Auctions.
As the competition continues to grow in scale and visibility, AFCA is formalizing protocols and oversight mechanisms to ensure greater transparency and integrity. A key part of this is the appointment of an Independent Auditor for each National ToH. The Auditor will uphold fair practice by ensuring proper sample handling, coding, and data verification throughout the competition process.
Call for Service Providers: Taste of Harvest Warehouse & Export Partner
Added on: November 13, 2025
Submission Deadline: December 20, 2025
AFCA is seeking a Warehouse & Export Partner for the Ethiopia National Taste of Harvest Competition and auction. This partnership offers a strategic opportunity to contribute to advancing African coffee visibility and trade. The Warehouse & Export Partner will store and coordinate all outbound shipments of coffee samples to auction partners and facilitate post-auction export of winning lots to successful bidders.
We invite Expressions of Interest (EOI) from licensed exporters with proven experience in sample and lot handling, export documentation, and working with specialty coffee buyers.
Call for Proposals: Taste of Harvest Photography & Videography Services
Added on: November 12, 2025
Submission Deadline: Rolling Basis
The African Fine Coffees Association (AFCA) is organizing the 2025–2026 Ethiopia National Taste of Harvest (ToH) Competition, scheduled to take place from between December 2025 and January 2026 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The Taste of Harvest is AFCA’s flagship coffee quality competition, held annually across member countries, to identify, celebrate, and promote Africa’s finest coffees. Coffees are evaluated across multiple rounds by panels of national and international judges. The competition concludes with a local awards ceremony and an online coffee auction.
The selected service provider will produce a collection of high-quality photographs and short-form video reels aligned with AFCA’s branding and communications strategy.