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Officials choose lottery logo; firms put in contract bidsNews Story
Tennessee lottery officials Monday picked a new logo from 100 proposed designs and learned they will have just two bids to choose from for one major vendor contract and three for another.GTECH Inc. and Scientific Games International were the only two firms meeting Monday's deadline for submission of bids to operate the state lottery's online network, which installs machines for selling tickets to statewide and multistate lotteries.Three bids were received for sales of instant tickets, also kno
Oct 28, 2003, 3:45 am - Todd - Lottery News

Big lottery vendor dogged by controversyNews Story
GTECH expected to bid for online games in TennesseeScandal and suspicion have marked GTECH's 22 years in the lottery business. But so has spectacular success.The company, which is expected to bid on the Tennessee lottery's online games contract, helps run lotteries in 26 states and 42 other countries. Its revenues exceed $1 billion a year, spokesman Bob Vincent said.But GTECH, which is based in West Greenwich, R.I., also has run into trouble, especially in the 1990s. In Georgia, where Tennessee
Oct 20, 2003, 7:59 am - Todd - Lottery News

GTech signs contract extension with Danish lotteryNews Story
GTech Corp. of West Greenwich, R.I., today announced that it has signed a two-year contract extension with Dansk Tipstjeneste A/S, the operator of the National Lottery in Denmark.GTech says the deal could be worth approximately $10 million.Under the terms of the contract extension, GTech will continue to provide Dansk Tipstjeneste with software support and terminal maintenance and repair through Aug. 31, 2005. GTech and Dansk Tipstjeneste have enjoyed a successful partnership over the past 14 ye
Sep 12, 2003, 3:44 am - Todd - Lottery News

Court filings outline steering of D.C. lottery dealNews Story
In recorded conversation, official suggests ousting winner of bidding Documents filed in federal court Thursday portray in vivid detail the efforts of a number of D.C. officials, including then-Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray and Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi, to manipulate the outcome of the competitively bid, multimillion-dollar D.C. Lottery contract. The documents, supported by transcripts of tape-recorded conversations, were filed in response to efforts by the city to resis
Sep 16, 2011, 10:06 am - Todd - Lottery News

Florida Lottery sued by House over contractNews Story
Just another political battle masquerading as a lawsuit? Florida's House of Representatives filed a lawsuit late Friday accusing the Florida Lottery of illegally signing a long-term contract for ticket sales, escalating a feud between House Speaker Richard Corcoran and Gov. Rick Scott a little more than a week before the legislative session begins. Corcoran's decision to file the lawsuit represents a head-on confrontation with an agency overseen by Scott. In response, the governor's office
Feb 22, 2017, 7:40 am - Todd - Lottery News

Vermont sued over state lottery contract awardNews Story
The company that has operated Vermont Lottery games for the past 10 years is suing the state, trying to force the release of documents related to Vermont's decision to switch to another company. Scientific Games International Inc. alleges in a lawsuit that the state Lottery Commission, its executive director, Alan Yandow, and Attorney General William Sorrell have violated Vermont's public records law for about a year by refusing to provide the documents. Scientific Games, based in Alpharet
Jun 11, 2010, 8:48 am - Todd - Lottery News

D.C. Lottery contract award put on holdNews Story
Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty is withdrawing a controversial proposal to award a $120 million lottery contract to a start-up firm in a maneuver designed to prevent the agreement from dying in the D.C. Council. Fenty (D) will resubmit the proposal in September, when the council returns from a summer recess, interim Attorney General Peter J. Nickles said. That would be the third time Fenty asks the council to give the contract to W2I Ventures instead of extending the agreement with
Jun 27, 2008, 8:01 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.M. Lottery signs 7-year contract with IntralotNews Story
The New Mexico Lottery today awarded a contract for a new computer gaming system to Georgia-based Intralot, ending a competitive bidding process that started more than two and a half years ago. Over the life of the seven-year contract, the lottery will pay Intralot a base price of 1.50 percent or $18.2 million on projected total net sales of $1.15 billion. Intralot's base price includes ticket sale and validation terminals for 1,100 lottery retailers statewide as well as related peripher
Nov 20, 2007, 9:42 am - Todd - Lottery News

Fox dismisses any impropriety in work for GTECHNews Story
A week before state lawmakers voted to give GTECH an exclusive, 20-year lottery contract, the Providence law firm with which House Majority Leader Gordon D. Fox is associated was discussing its own proposed contract with GTECH.A Providence Democrat, Fox ascended to the second-most powerful political position in the House this year.On April 22, GTECH's top in-house lawyer had the first of several conversations with the principals in Ferrucci Russo PC -- where Fox works -- about a potential role f
Oct 1, 2003, 3:34 am - Todd - Lottery News

Mass. Lottery bases advertising hire on diversityNews Story
More capable company doesn't get contract for nondiversity, despite having female CEO The Massachusetts Lottery's lucrative advertising contract, the source of the political downfall of former state Treasurer Tim Cahill, is again under fire after a marketing firm led by a prominent Boston businesswoman lost the bid under the state's diversity program. The Patrick administration is defending the award of the $5 million Lottery contract to Connelly Partners, which is not owned by a woman or
Jul 8, 2013, 8:55 am - Todd - Lottery News