By a decision of the mayor, Dimitris Markos, signed on Thursday 24 September (No. 707/2026), the Municipality of Spata–Artemida has directly awarded the contract for the ‘Supply and installation of safety flooring and playground equipment in Artemida’ to GEOFOS A.T.E.B.E., a company based in Mandra, Attica. The cost is 29,838.71 euros excluding VAT, or 37,000 euros including VAT.
What will be installed
The decision sets out four categories (prices excluding VAT):
- one two-seater swing for toddlers, 1,950 euros
- one three-seater swing, with two seats and a ‘nest’, 3,600 euros
- one playground play structure, €9,280.71
- 107.20 square metres of moulded, multi-coloured safety flooring, at €140 per square metre, totalling €15,008
The flooring is the biggest expense, accounting for almost half the cost. The specification ‘for a fall height of 1.38 m’ means that the material must safely absorb the impact of a child falling from that height; it is the figure that links the flooring to the highest point of the equipment to be installed above it.
Which playgrounds? The decision doesn’t say
Neither the award decision nor the commitment of funds (17 September) specifically mentions a playground; they refer generally to ‘Artemida playgrounds’. The locations are specified in study 113/2026 by the Department of the Environment, Green Spaces and Civil Protection, which was approved on 18 September. To date, the council has not announced where the play equipment will be installed.
The agency’s application had been submitted on 14 July. From then on, everything happened within a week: funds were committed on 17 September, the design was approved and a call for tenders issued on the 18th, a tender was submitted on the 22nd, and the contract was awarded today.
Four contracts, the same amount, the same company
Today’s is the fourth contract this year for the municipality’s playgrounds. All four were awarded directly to the same company and amount to exactly €29,838.71 excluding VAT, or €37,000 including VAT:
- 15 June: maintenance and spare parts for the Artemida playgrounds (Decision 416)
- 15 June: maintenance and spare parts for the Spata playgrounds (Decision 417)
- 13 August: flooring and equipment for the Spata playgrounds (Decision 624)
- 24 September: flooring and equipment for the Artemida playgrounds (Decision 707)
A total of 148,000 euros. Each contract remains 161.29 euros below the threshold of 30,000 euros (excluding VAT), up to which the Public Procurement Act (Law 4412/2016) permits direct award without a tender process. In its decisions, the Municipality refers to Municipal Council Decision 97/2026, which designates the municipal districts of Spata and Artemida as separate groups for the ‘independent execution of identical or similar expenditure’, as provided for in the new Local Government Code.
Maintenance is already underway
The maintenance contract for the Artemida was signed on 18 June and remains in force until 18 June 2027. It provides for 118 days of workshop labour for fault repairs, at a rate of 160 euros per day, and a list of spare parts, ranging from swing seats and springs to planks for benches. On 1 September, the Municipality issued a payment order of 19,337.16 euros for this contract to cover invoices dated 26 August – that is, more than half the annual amount within the first two months.
For parents, this means that there is an authorised repair service available until the summer of 2027. A broken swing or worn flooring should be reported to the Artemida Town Hall call centre (22944 40862), and it is worth asking for a reference number.
Source: Municipality of Spata–Artemida — Mayor’s Decision No. 707/2026 of 24 September 2026 (ADA ΨΣΗΜΩ1Χ-ΒΥΔ); Decisions 416/2026 and 417/2026 of 15 June 2026 and 624/2026 of 13 August 2026; Commitment Decision B-814 of 17 September 2026 (ADA 9Ψ80Ω1Χ-Ψ7Ρ); payment order dated 1 September 2026 (ADA 9M3LΩ1X-41Ω), Diafania.
