The Municipality of Spata–Artemida paid €45,448.48 to the company CTESIBIUS TECHNIKI EE for the first instalment of repairs to the water supply network under the new contract. The payment order was published on the Diafania transparency portal on Tuesday 6 October. It relates to an invoice dated 10 September, one month after the contract was signed. The contract is worth €195,890.24 and runs until 10 August 2027. The first payment already amounts to 23 per cent of this sum.
This is the third consecutive year that the Council has awarded the contract for repairs to the water network to the same company, based in Gerakas. In the last two tenders, it was the only company to submit a bid, and on both occasions it quoted exactly the same amount.
One bidder, 2 per cent below budget
This year’s tender was announced on 17 April 2026. It was an open electronic tender with a budget of 199,888 euros, including VAT. The tenders were opened on 7 May and, according to the committee’s minutes, CTESIBIUS was the ‘sole tenderer’. It quoted €195,890.24, which is 2 per cent less than the budget. The Municipal Committee approved the final minutes of the tender on 25 June (Decision 384/2026) and the contract was signed on 11 August.
The same thing happened last year. The tender bids were opened on 7 January 2025 and there was only one, from the same company. It amounted to 157,976 euros excluding VAT, or 195,890.24 euros including VAT – exactly the same amount as this year (Municipal Committee Decision 46/2025). And in 2024, the repairs were carried out by CTESIBIUS, under contract 12405/16-4-2024.
It is not illegal for there to be only one bid. However, it does mean that the price was not determined through competition with other companies.
Last year’s allocation ran out in December
The 2025 contract was signed on 26 March and paid in five instalments: €38,582.60 in June, €31,473.68 in August, €33,661.04 in September, €39,007.92 in October and €53,165.00 in December. The total comes to €195,890.24, the full amount of the contract, paid over approximately nine months.
The last payment last year was made on 10 December 2025 and the new contract was signed on 11 August 2026. The process began with a request from the Technical Department on 18 February. For the period during which the Municipality had no contract, the Diafania transparency portal shows monthly decisions on overtime for the Municipality’s Water Supply and Sewerage Works Department. In December, there were also payments to another contractor for ‘excavation of trenches to repair faults in the water supply network’. If the coming months cost as much as the first, this year’s budget will be exhausted well before August 2027.
Other projects by the same company
CTESIBIUS also holds the other two main works contracts for the water network. It is carrying out new connections to the water supply network, under contracts for 2024, 2025 and 2026. For this year’s contract, at least €61,194 has already been paid in three instalments. It had also undertaken the maintenance, cleaning and waterproofing of the water tanks (contract 43659/2024).
In addition to the waterworks, the same company built the square in block G75 and the car park in block 77 in Artemida. It also built the roads near the 2nd Artemida Secondary School and has carried out work on school buildings. It is also the contractor for the indoor sports hall in Mazareko, worth 1.8 million euros, for which the implementation study was recently approved.
Who pays for them?
The warrant is funded from the revenue generated by the water supply service. This means that the cost of repairs is covered by residents’ water bills, rather than the council’s general budget.
If you notice a fault or a leak on the street, please call the council’s water supply department on 22940 86666. For information on water quality and the analyses commissioned by the municipality, see our report of 3 October.
Source: Municipality of Spata–Artemida, payment order No. A/2145 dated 5 October 2026, Diafania 6 October 2026; Municipal Committee decision No. 384/2026, Diaugia 25 June 2026; Municipal Committee Decision 46/2025, Diavgeia 6 February 2025; payment orders 2025 relating to contract 16373/2025.
