The Municipality of Spata–Artemida settled the payment on Monday 21 September for the digital platform through which citizens will report incidents involving stray animals and the relevant services will record them and monitor their progress. The payment order, amounting to 31,000 euros including VAT, was published on the ‘Diafania’ transparency portal alongside a certificate of final acceptance of the service dated 18 September. For the local authority, therefore, the project has been delivered. For residents, however, there is still neither an announcement nor a link.
The process took less than two months. Study 112/2026 by the Directorate of Planning, Development, IT & Transparency was approved on 23 July and a call for tenders was issued on the same day. The tender was submitted on 27 July, the direct award decision (No. 577) was signed on 29 July in favour of DEAVER EE, based in Kastoria, and the contract was signed on 3 August. The contract expires on 2 October 2027.
The table in the contract award decision sets out what was purchased with the €31,000. The €21,080 (including VAT) is allocated to software development: configuration, a ‘citizen PWA’, APIs and a management dashboard for the services. A further €3,720 covers the platform licence, which is explicitly non-exclusive; €1,240 for staff training using the user manuals, and €4,960 for twelve months’ support with a performance guarantee. The payment order dated 21 September covers the entire amount, including the support to be provided over the next twelve months.
A PWA is a website that works like an app: it opens in a mobile browser and can be added to the home screen without needing to be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play. However, to use it, you need to know where to find it. The Council has not announced a URL or launch date, and there is no mention of it on its website. There is already an active subdomain, adespota.spata-artemis.gr, which redirects to an external provider. When iartemida checked it on the evening of Wednesday 23 September, the address only displayed an access blocked message, not a reporting form. It is not known whether the platform is in a trial phase or awaiting staff training.
The scale of the task it was called upon to undertake had been set out by the Municipality itself in March. In the report covering the two-year period 2024–2025, which was approved by the Municipal Council on 31 March (Resolution 43/2026), the department states that it manages approximately 6,000 cats and 2,000 dogs with a staff-short department. During the same two-year period, 958 sterilisation procedures and 1,200 vaccinations were carried out, 1,108 microchips were fitted, and 246 animals were put up for adoption. The programme’s costs amounted to 560,000 euros, excluding the Municipal Veterinary Clinic, which costs a further 130,800 euros a year in rent, salaries and bills. Given the scale of the operation, a system that records every incident and highlights which cases remain unresolved has a clear purpose — provided that members of the public can actually find it.
In Artemida, the Municipal Community Council gave its approval on 26 May (resolution 10/2026) for three designated food and water distribution points: in the area of Agios Konstantinos and Eleni, at the harbour and in the area of Agios Nikolaos. According to the proposal, the sites were chosen in areas where stray animals already gather, away from roads with heavy traffic, and will be run by volunteers and animal welfare organisations under the supervision of the Municipality.
Until the platform goes live, reports should be made as before: by calling 213 2007307, the Town Hall’s stray animal service, or by emailing adespota@spata-artemis.gr. It would be helpful if you could also send an email straight away, stating the exact location, the time, including a photograph and a contact telephone number, so that the incident can be recorded in writing.
We will provide an update once the Council has announced where and when the platform will open to the public.
Source: Municipality of Spata–Artemida, payment order 2.030/2026 (Diafania, 21/09/2026) and direct award decision 577/2026 (29/07/2026); Municipal Council decision 43/2026 (31 March 2026); Artemida Municipal Community Council decision 10/2026 (26 May 2026).
