Global Sourcing. Building Africa.
We import construction and infrastructure materials — priced landed on your site, certified before they ship, and consolidated so you clear once instead of five times. FOB is a number. Landed cost is the truth.
Dubai · IFZA Freezone | One contracting entity: Sunrise Global Solutions - FZCO
Procure the way you build
A contractor buys against the programme, not against a product list. Pick the stage you are procuring for — each one lists what we supply, and exactly what we need in order to price it landed.
Select a stage. Not sure what you need yet? Send the drawing or the BoQ — we will read it.
Before the material — the arithmetic
Two suppliers quote cement. One is 8 % cheaper on paper — then ships in the wrong container size, sits three weeks on demurrage and lands 20 % more expensive on your site. That is the calculation we run before we quote, and it is why our first number is sometimes the higher one.
You get back a landed cost per tonne on your site — freight, port, duty, clearing, haulage and an allowance for loss, itemised. Not an FOB price with the hard part left to you.
The part that is not commercial
Under-specification rebar and adulterated cement are a documented reality in this market. That is not a pricing problem. It is a structural one.
Every consignment of reinforcement and structural steel comes with the mill test certificate for the heat it came from — chemistry and mechanical properties, traceable to the batch you receive. Not a generic certificate for a different heat, which is what a cheap quote usually arrives with.
Where the value or the risk justifies it, we arrange third-party pre-shipment inspection (SGS, Bureau Veritas or Intertek) before the goods leave the works. You pay for it once — or you find out at the port instead.
And the hard line: if a mill cannot produce the certificate, we will not buy from them — and we will tell you plainly why the cheaper quote is cheaper. Under-spec rebar is not a saving. It is a collapse with a delay attached.
What we supply
Beside each package is what we need in order to price it landed. Send a BoQ or a drawing and we will take the quantities off it ourselves.
Bulk material and ground engineering — the package where transport, not product, is the entire cost.
Bulk material is a haulage question wearing a product's clothes. Local sourcing often wins — and we will say so.
The package that stops the job when it is late — and endangers it when it is under-spec.
Tell us the pour dates, not just the tonnage. Concrete does not wait for a container.
Sections, plate and fabrication — where a wrong grade stays invisible until it is not.
Fabricate abroad or locally? We will price both. Often the steel should travel raw.
Where the building meets the weather — and where the wrong sheet gauge becomes an annual repair bill.
On the coast, coating class is not an upgrade. It is the difference between fifteen years and three.
The package with the longest tail of small items — and therefore the one that most often arrives 90 % complete.
Send the whole MEP BoQ, not the headline items. A missing gasket set stops the same job a missing pump does.
The package the client actually sees — and the one where samples matter more than specifications.
We ship samples for approval before the container. Rejecting a finish at the port is an expensive way to choose a colour.
Roads, drainage, fencing and site services — always priced last, always needed first.
Send the site layout. We will take the quantities off it ourselves.
Not part of the building — but it decides how fast the building goes up.
Buy or hire? On a single project, hiring usually wins — and we will tell you when it does.
09 — The recurring business
Small items, small margins — and the reason a crew of forty stands still for a day.
We supply against your programme, not against an emergency: a standing schedule of the items that run out, consolidated into the same container as the material — instead of an airfreight when the store is empty.
This is where we intend to earn the relationship. Nobody changes supplier over a cement price. They change supplier because the binding wire never arrived.
Send last month's store issue sheet. We will turn it into a standing schedule.
How we work
The difference between procurement and trading sits in steps one and two.
Freight, port, duty, clearing, haulage and loss — itemised to a cost per tonne on your site, before we recommend anything.
Mill certificates for every heat. Third-party inspection where the risk justifies it. No certificate, no shipment.
One shipment instead of five. Containers filled properly. One set of documents, one clearance, one demurrage exposure.
HS codes right the first time and documents complete before the vessel arrives — because demurrage is a paperwork failure, not bad luck.
To site, on the date the pour needs it — and if something slips, you hear it from us before the crew is standing there.
Who we are — and are not
Send us the BoQ
You do not need a clean list to talk to us. Send the BoQ, the drawing, or a photograph of the schedule on the wall — we will extract the quantities and come back with a landed cost.
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