“Five minutes,” Samira said, holding out the report. “No bribe. No sob story. Just data.”
She pulled up the leaked, year-old version of the AVL. It was a 1,200-page PDF, a dense thicket of company names, approval codes, and expiry dates. She began cross-referencing. Her competitor, GulfCast Solutions , was on it, of course. But their approval was due for renewal in three months.
“This is actionable,” she said. “I’ll initiate a compliance review. If you’re clean, you’ll be reinstated within ten days.” ega approved vendor list
Samira laid out her case without a single plea. She showed the lab tests. She showed the drone footage. Then she slid over a single sheet of paper: a detailed comparison showing that GulfCast Solutions’ upcoming renewal application had a discrepancy—they listed a Chinese raw material supplier that had itself been delisted from the EGA AVL two years ago for falsifying tensile strength tests.
Nadia studied the sheet. Her expression didn’t change. She was a guardian of the list, trained to show nothing. Finally, she tapped the paper. “Five minutes,” Samira said, holding out the report
Ten days later, Samira was back in Cairo. At 2:17 PM, her phone buzzed.
He paused. “Why would I tell you that?” Just data
She didn’t have a contact at EGA. But she knew a man who did. Karim. Her ex-husband. He now ran a logistics firm that was also on the AVL. She hated calling him, but she hated losing more.
“Because if I go under, the two dozen subcontractors we share go under with me. And your logistics firm will have to find new suppliers. Think of it as supply chain hygiene.”
“The list is not a suggestion,” the EGA procurement chief, a man named Hadi, had told her over a video call. His office behind him was sterile, perfect, and utterly indifferent. “It is a covenant of trust. If you are not on it, you do not exist.”
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