Bids submitted by four participants to a supplementary tender being staged by Greek electricity distribution network operator DEDDIE/HEDNO for the installation of an initial lot of 360,000 low-voltage smart meters, as an addition to 7.3 million smart meters planned through the project’s main tender, are expected to be opened for appraisal towards the end of next week.

This initial lot of 360,000 smart meters has been marked out for large-scale consumers as well as agencies and enterprises of the public sector.

The appraisal procedure for offers submitted to the main tender, offering a lucrative 1.2 billion-euro contract for the installation of 7.3 million smart meters throughout the country, still has a long way to go. 

Technical and financial details in the bids, amounting to hundreds of pages, present a humongous task for officials.The same four bidders have submitted offers to both tenders.

Greek company Protasis, partnering with France’s Sagemcom Energy & Telecom SAS; US corporation Itron’s Spanish subsidiary; fellow US firm Elster Rometrics’ Romanian subsidiary; and Slovenia’s Iskraemeco make up the field of contestants.