By Decision No. 754/2026 of Thursday 8 October, the mayor of Spata–Artemida approved a multi-year expenditure of 252,482.20 euros for the project ‘Replacement and extension of water mains’: €100,000 in 2026 and €152,482.20 in 2027. This is the final step before the contract is signed with ASA Anonymous Technical Company, to which the Municipal Committee awarded the tender on 23 June. The project is funded from the municipality’s own resources, namely water supply charges and other revenue.
Where will the projects take place?
The tender document sets out six sections, totalling approximately 1,750 metres of pipework:
- Agios Ioannis, Artemida: replacement of an existing pipeline over a length of 800 metres, the largest section of the project
- Corfu, Vorineza area, Artemida: installation of a pressure-reducing valve with a new manhole
- Gialou, Spata: new 500-metre pipeline
- Spata–Artemida at Agios Konstantinos, Spata: replacement of 280 metres
- Papadiamanti, Spata: replacement of 90 metres
- Byzantio, Spata: replacement of 80 metres
The pipes are made of polyethylene, with diameters of Φ90, Φ110 and Φ140, laid in trenches 0.60 metres wide and 1.20 metres deep, with backfill, a new layer of tarmac, shut-off valves, pressure-relief valves and connection to the existing network, as well as domestic connections where required. The deadline for completion is 12 months from the date of signing. For the residents of Agios Ioannis, this means open trenches along the road and temporary water cuts to their connections, which the Council will announce on a case-by-case basis.
Nine bids and two ‘unusually low’ ones
Study 24/2025 by the Technical Department was approved by the Municipal Committee on 4 July 2025 with a budget of 349,630.97 euros including VAT. The tender notice was published on 29 October 2025 and the tenders were opened on 24 November. Nine bids were submitted: ASA ATE 27.79 per cent, Spyros Karavelas ATE 25 per cent, IERA ATE 21.03 per cent, Diamantakis Brothers General Partnership 14 per cent, Intercon Construction IKE 13.29 per cent, Green Construction ATE 12.87 per cent, LM Construction ATE 6 per cent, Ch. Mastrokostas Brothers ATE 2 per cent and Stathis Serafeim and Co. GP 2 per cent, which was rejected because it did not submit a letter of guarantee.
The average of the acceptable discounts was 13.78 per cent. Any tenders that deviated by more than ten points – namely those from ASA and Karavela – were deemed ‘abnormally low’, and the companies were asked in February to justify their prices. ASA was provisionally awarded the contract on 21 April; no one lodged an appeal, the supporting documents were checked on 10 June, and the award was approved unanimously on 23 June. The contract value is €203,614.68 excluding VAT, which is €97,148.77 below budget.
From offers to money: a year
Almost eleven months elapsed between the opening of the tenders and the commitment of the funding, with no appeals being lodged. With a 12-month deadline, the project will be completed by the end of 2027 at the earliest, which is why the bulk of the funds, €152,482.20, is included in the following year’s budget.
This is a different project from the fault repairs, about which we wrote on 6 October: where the Council pays for patchwork repairs to an old network, whereas here it is replacing sections which the Technical Department has evidently deemed unable to withstand any further patchwork repairs. The study does not explain why these six roads were chosen and not others. In the case of Agios Ioannis, 800 metres of replacement work means that the pipeline was deemed problematic along its entire length.
Source: Municipality of Spata–Artemida, Mayor’s Decision No. 754/2026 approving the assumption of a multi-year commitment (Diafania, 8 October 2026); Municipal Committee Decisions 383/2025, 224/2026 and 416/2026; ADAM notice 25PROC017820344 (29/10/2025).
