SPORTSPEL
Paraguay – Anbud på sportvadslagning öppnade för ny licensinnehavare
By James - 1 november 2022
National Gaming Commission (Conajzar) has opened the bids as part of the call for Public Tender No. 01/2022, which will grant a license for sports betting for the next five years.
Totalt sex företag hade begärt budgivningsvillkoren, men endast tre lämnade in sina anbud. Det formella öppnandet av anbuden ägde rum i Conajzars högkvarter.
The three companies that submitted bids are Daruma Sam SA. (Apostala); the consortium B-Gaming Sucursal Paraguay and Gambling S.A. and a company owned by Luis Carlos Alder Benítez (under the name Playtech), whose legal representative is former Foreign Minister Rubén Melgarejo Lanzoni.
The bidding companies were also permitted to verbally present their case as to why they should be permitted to be the sole sportsbetting operator and criticise the bids put forward by their competitors.
När det kom till ekonomiska erbjudanden erbjöd Daruma Sam SA en kanon på 22%, medan konsortiet BGaming – Gambling SA erbjöd 27% och Playtech erbjöd 23%.
Directors of current license holder Daruma Sam S.A defended their track record saying: “We formally presented our proposal, we are sure that it meets all the requirements, based on the experience obtained in these five years and our knowledge of the market, we opted for a realistic, coherent offer, instead of reckless figures that later in practice are unfeasible.”
The financial part of the tender is only one aspect of the process as experience in the area will also be taken into account.
Det lokala företaget Daruma Sam fick ensamrätten att erbjuda sportspel före de senaste FIFA World Cup i fem år. I september öppnade Conajzar anbudsinfordran nr 01/2022 och öppnade processen för de kommande fem.
Sports betting is permitted under Paraguay’s gaming laws which går tillbaka till 1997. Sports betting used to be limited to a single location attached to a racetrack. The expansion began in 2015 after CONAJZAR announced that a sport betting tender would be launched in the near future as the board began to look at opening up the market. Since then sports betting in Paraguay has proven extremt kontroversiellt.
