The Municipality of Spata–Artemida has cancelled the tender for the materials to be used in repairing its roads. By Decision No. 816 of Monday 2 November, Mayor Dimitris Markou has cancelled the invitations to sign contracts with the two companies that had won the tender for the ‘Supply of aggregates, concrete, asphalt mix & cold mix asphalt’ and has annulled the agreement that had already been signed for the cold mix asphalt.
The reason, as stated in the decision itself, is procedural. When, on 30 September, the agency announced the final award via ESHIDIS, the message was sent ‘by mistake’ only to the two contractors and not to the other four valid participants. Without this notification, the deadline for them to lodge an appeal had not even begun to run.
Who won and by how much?
In accordance with Decision 567/2026 of the Municipal Committee, ‘ELLINIKI TECHNIKI ATEBE’ was awarded the first three lots: aggregates (€5,063.66 including VAT), concrete (€77,167.31) and asphalt mix (€37,432.50). ‘ERGON A.T.T.E.B.E.’ was awarded the fourth lot, ready-mixed cold asphalt mix in 25-kilogram containers, for €9,649.25. Together with two smaller items in the tender, the total comes to approximately 129,400 euros including VAT.
Six companies had submitted tenders for the tender (Tender Notice 445/19-06-2026, ESIDIS 481014): RESTRUCT EE, MARAGKOS DOMIKA IKE, Skourletou and Co. O.E., BITUMIX Asphalt Mixes S.A., HELLENIC TECHNICAL ATEBE and ERGON. Most of them submitted bids for only one or two lots.
How did it come to this?
The process has been ongoing since June. The Municipal Committee approved the design and the terms on 19 June (Decision 372/2026), the first set of minutes and the provisional award in August, on 3 September it granted the provisional contractor an extension to submit supporting documents (Decision 540/2026) and in September it made the final award. On 15 October, the Municipality invited the two companies to sign, and on 23 October the contract was signed with ERGON. However, it had not been published on the KIMDIS system, and therefore had not come into force.
On 26 October, RESTRUCT lodged a pre-trial appeal with the Authority for the Examination of Pre-trial Appeals (EADISY). The contents of the appeal have not been published. The company had submitted a tender for concrete and asphalt mix, that is, for two of the lots awarded to Elliniki Techniki.
What happens next?
The decision instructs the Procurement Department to send the award notification to all six parties simultaneously so that, as it states, ‘the statutory time limit for pre-judgment remedies may recommence for all participants’. The award is not annulled; it is the subsequent acts that are annulled. If no new appeal is lodged or if any that are lodged are dismissed, the contracts will be signed from the outset.
For local residents, this means that the new contract for road repair materials is being further delayed, just as winter sets in, when potholes multiply after every downpour. The previous contract for concrete and asphalt mix (54191/19-12-2024) was due to expire on 18 December 2025 and was extended by amendment; the last payment we found on the ‘Diafania’ transparency portal was dated 19 June 2026. In January, the Municipality had set aside a separate allocation for asphalt mix and bituminous emulsion to repair damage to road surfaces.
If you spot a pothole or a patch of damaged road surface, please report it to the local council; we’ve compiled a list of the drains in this guide.
Source: Municipality of Spata–Artemida, Mayor’s Decision 816/2026 (Ref. No. 88233), Diafania 2 November 2026; Municipal Committee Decision 567/2026, Diafania 12 October 2026.
