GTECH wins top lottery contracts
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
By Chris Fitzsimon
Scientific Games, facing state probe, loses out in process
MARK JOHNSON
mjohnson@charlotteobserver.com
RALEIGH - The N.C. lottery commission awarded the two major contracts to run the state’s new lottery to Rhode Island-based GTECH Corp. on Monday, rejecting a firm tied to several controversies surrounding the commission and the office of House Speaker Jim Black.
The contracts, one for five years and the other for six, are estimated to be worth a total of $19 million a year to GTECH during the first full calendar year of operation.
"We got the best price of any state," said Tom Shaheen, the lottery’s executive director.
The lottery’s deal with GTECH also calls for an earlier-than-planned launch. The contract requires starting scratch-off tickets on March 30, six days earlier than scheduled, and Powerball sales on May 30, two weeks ahead of original plans.
"It’s an aggressive timeline, but it’s one we’re comfortable in successfully achieving," said Angela Geryak Wiczek, GTECH’s communications director. "We’ve done it before and we’ll certainly do it again."
Two dozen GTECH workers are scheduled to fly to Raleigh today to start work. (more…)
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