Treatment, distribution and the standards a water contract is built on
Water supply projects are engineering contracts governed by a public health standard. Drinking water quality parameters are set by regulation, sampled continuously and enforced, so every material in contact with water must be approved for that use, every process must demonstrate the removal or inactivation it claims, and commissioning includes disinfection and a period of verified sampling before the asset can serve customers. A treatment works that is built correctly and cannot evidence compliance is not finished.
Distribution work is a different discipline from treatment and is often let separately: mains laying and rehabilitation, pumping stations, reservoirs, pressure management and metering. Much of it happens in streets under permits from a highway authority, with reinstatement to a specified standard and a guarantee period afterwards, so the cost of working in the road is a large part of the price. Leakage reduction contracts in particular are frequently let on outcome terms -- a measured reduction achieved -- rather than on lengths of pipe replaced.
The delivery model is increasingly bundled. Design-build-operate and similar arrangements ask one supplier to design, construct and then run the asset for years, on the reasoning that an operator who inherits its own design has a strong incentive to design something operable. That changes qualification: bidders need an operating record and an ability to price energy, chemicals and sludge disposal over a long term, not only construction capability. Where the scheme serves an unserved or intermittently served population, social and resettlement safeguards and community engagement obligations are usually conditions of the funding and not only of the contract.
This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.
Who buys water supply projects in Greece?
GlobalGov holds 93 water supply projects records from 59 distinct buying organisations in Greece. The most frequent publishers are International buyer (6 records); International buyer (4 records); International buyer (3 records); International buyer (3 records); Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator S.A.(HEDNO) (2 records); International buyer (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 22% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| International buyer | 6 | 6.5% |
| International buyer | 4 | 4.3% |
| International buyer | 3 | 3.2% |
| International buyer | 3 | 3.2% |
| Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator S.A.(HEDNO) | 2 | 2.2% |
| International buyer | 2 | 2.2% |
What are water supply projects contracts worth in Greece?
83 of the 93 records publish a contract value. The median is $8.0M and the largest single published value is $74.6M. By size, 6 between $100k and $1M, 48 between $1M and $10M, 29 above $10M. The remaining 10 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 0 | 0.0% |
| between $100k and $1M | 6 | 7.2% |
| between $1M and $10M | 48 | 58% |
| above $10M | 29 | 35% |
How long do bidders get to respond to water supply projects tenders in Greece?
Across the 20 Greece water supply projects notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 37 days. A quarter of them allowed 36 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 49. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are water supply projects tenders published in Greece?
Greece published 11 notices in this category in the last twelve months. That is 10% more than the 10 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 31, spread across 43 separate months of activity since 21 May 2021. December is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 26 May 2026, 128 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does Greece compare with other water supply projects markets?
Among the 26 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable water supply projects market, Greece ranks 13th by number of records. The largest is Kenya (4,976 records against 93 here). Within Greece itself, water supply projects is the 36th largest of the 56 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Greece water supply projects records on this page come from?
These 93 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (93). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.
Most recent Water Supply Projects tenders in Greece
None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical water supply projects notice in Greece is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Greece – Construction work for water projects – ΚΑΤΑΣΚΕΥΗ ΤΩΝ ΑΓΩΓΩΝ ΠΡΟΣΑΓΩΓΗΣ ΝΕΡΟΥ ΣΤΙΣ ΤΟΥΡΙΣΤΙΚΕΣ ΠΕΡΙΟΧΕΣ ΣΙΣΙ, ΜΙΛΑΤΟΣ, ΕΛΟΥΝΤΑ ΣΤΗ ΝΕΑΠΟΛΗ ΚΑΙ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΟΙΚΙΣΜΟΥΣ ΒΡΑΧΑΣΙ, ΝΙΚΗΘΙΑΝΑ, ΛΙΜΝΕΣ, ΧΟΥΜΕΡΙΑΚΟΣ, ΜΕΣΑ- ΕΞΩ ΛΑΚΚΩΝΙΑ, ΚΡΙΤΣΑ, ΤΟΥ Ν. ΛΑΣΙΘΙΟΥ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΦΡΑΓΜΑ ΑΠΟΣΕΛΕΜΗ
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