Eleven companies submitted tenders for the ‘Construction and repair of the road network in the Artemida Municipal Unit’ tender, a project worth 800,000 euros including VAT, covering six roads in the town. The average discount on the admissible tenders is 25.41 per cent, and five of them are more than ten percentage points away from the average. The Municipal Committee unanimously decided to ask the five bidders to justify their prices before proceeding with the award.
Decision 613/2026 was taken at the meeting on Friday 2 October and published on the Diaugia website on Friday 16 October. On 29 September we reported that the minutes would reveal who had entered the tender. It is now in the public domain.
The Six Roads
The project, with a budget of €645,161.29 plus VAT, covers Agia Irini Chrysovalantou Street, Independence Street, Street 53, Prasinou Lofou, Andrea Papandreou and Makrygianni, totalling 4,050 metres. The council’s budget allocates €100,000 for this year and €700,000 for 2027, meaning that the bulk of the work will take place next year.
What the case study shows
The tenders were submitted electronically via ESIDIS (ref. no. 221427) by Monday 21 September and were opened on 23 September by the three-member tender committee. All eleven had a letter of guarantee of participation and progressed to the next stage.
According to the tender notice, any bid that deviates by more than ten percentage points from the average discount is considered ‘abnormally low’; in this case, that means any discount exceeding 35.41 per cent. The following fall into this category:
- DOMOKRAT Single-Member Public Limited Company
- HELLENIC TECHNICAL S.A.
- DIASTROSI CONSTRUCTION
- Dimitrios Tsigos
- EDRAIOS S.A.
The table showing each company’s percentage is not included as text in the Diafania file. That is why we are not yet able to state who the lowest bidder is.
What does this mean in terms of cost and time?
If the explanation provided by even one of the five is accepted, the contract will be awarded with a discount of over 35.41 per cent, i.e. for less than approximately 416,700 euros plus VAT, instead of 645,161. If all five are rejected, the bids with the smallest discounts will be considered next.
Companies have 20 days from the date of the invitation to explain how they arrived at their price. Any company that fails to respond is disqualified and forfeits its tender bond; any company whose explanation is not accepted is disqualified without forfeiting its tender bond. Everything stated in the explanations becomes a binding part of the contract. This is followed by a second round of proceedings, a new decision by the Committee and a review of the contractor’s supporting documents; consequently, a contractor cannot be selected before the end of October.
From the same meeting
On the same day, further decisions dated 2 October were published:
- Athens International Airport donated two laptops and a steam cleaner to Spata 4th Nursery School, following a request from the school (decision 622).
- A road traffic fine of €65.29, arising from a ticket issued by the Airport Traffic Police in August 2005, was written off because it was confirmed in 2011, after the three-year period stipulated by law (Decision 628).
- One of the legal opinions on documents from the Building Authority concerns a settlement for the conversion of a land contribution into a cash payment, 38.20 m² in Plot 303 of Local Area 5, Artemida (Decision 600).
Source: Municipality of Spata–Artemida, Municipal Committee Decision 613/2026 (meeting of 2 October 2026), Diafania, 16 October 2026.
