On Wednesday 23 September at 11.00 am, the tenders for the roadworks project in the Artemida Municipal Unit, with a budget of €800,000 including VAT. The deadline for submission closed on Monday 21 September at 2.00 pm. The tender is being conducted via the ESHIDIS system under reference number 221427, with the award criterion being exclusively the lowest price and a tender bond of €12,903.23.
The project covers six roads, with a total length of 4,050 metres: Agia Irini Chrysovalantou (700 metres), Anexartisias (700 metres), Road 53 (400 metres), Prasinou Lofou (1,000 metres), Andrea Papandreou (1,000 metres) and Makrygianni (250 metres).
The works are not the same everywhere. Over an area of approximately 9,000 square metres, the road is to be rebuilt from scratch — sub-base, base course, binder course and new asphalt. Over a further 11,500 square metres, the existing asphalt will be milled, followed by the application of a bonding course and a new wearing course. The project also includes excavation work, the refurbishment of manholes and utility networks, safety measures, site signage and traffic management. The deadline for completion is set at six months from the signing of the contract.
The funding is spread over two years: €100,000 is allocated for 2026 and €700,000 for 2027. In practical terms, this means that the bulk of the work will take place in 2027, even if the contract is signed this year. The net contract value excluding VAT is approximately 645,161 euros, so the final cost will depend on the discount offered by the contractor.
However, the issue that matters to residents is not the amount. It is the order in which the works are carried out. At the very same time as the Council is putting 4 kilometres of road resurfacing out to tender, EYDAP is constructing the sewerage network in Artemida and continues to announce new roads — the eighth announcement, covering eleven roads, is currently open, with a deadline for submitting supporting documents set for 15 October. Each external branch connection involves excavation from the network to the boundary of the property.
So, if a road is asphalted before the junctions have been completed, the new asphalt will have to be dug up again. This is the most common and most costly mistake in areas where sewerage systems are being installed, and Artemida has already experienced this on a smaller scale. The technical study provides for ‘the organisation of manholes and utility networks’, which indicates that coordination has been provided for in the text. Whether this has also been planned in terms of the timetable is a question that can only be answered by the Technical Services Department, and it is worth asking before the first crew arrives on site.
The following procedural steps take place. Once the bids have been opened, the participants and financial bids are recorded, and the supporting documents of the provisional contractor are checked; there is a window for objections and pre-contractual appeals, and only after the contract has been awarded and the pre-contractual checks have been carried out is the contract signed. Weeks, not days, lie between tomorrow’s opening of the tenders and the first machine arriving at Prasinou Lofou.
We will provide the names of the companies that submitted bids and the discount rates as soon as the minutes are published.
Source: Municipality of Spata–Artemida, notice of an open electronic tender for roadworks in the Artemida Municipal Unit (ESIDIS 221427), September 2026.
