ONICL will open bids for the tender on August 15, ONICL said in a statement.

The wheat must come in lots of at least 5,000 tonnes each and a deadline for its delivery is set for December 31, 2012, ONICL added. Last week, ONICL launched a tender to buy 300,000 tonnes of US-origin soft wheat, to start an import campaign set to be its biggest in three decades.