LES PARIS SPORTIFS
Paraguay – Ouverture des enchères pour les paris sportifs pour un nouveau titulaire de licence
By James - 1 novembre 2022
The 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.
Au total, six entreprises avaient demandé les conditions générales d'appel d'offres, mais seulement trois ont soumis leurs offres. L'ouverture officielle des offres a eu lieu au siège de Conajzar.
The three companies that submitted bids are Daruma Sam S.A. (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.
En ce qui concerne les offres économiques, Daruma Sam SA proposait un canon de 22 %, tandis que le consortium BGaming – Gambling SA offrait 27 % et Playtech 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.
La société locale Daruma Sam a obtenu le droit exclusif de proposer des paris sportifs avant la dernière Coupe du monde Fifa pour cinq ans. En septembre, Conajzar a ouvert l'appel d'offres public n° 01/2022, ouvrant ainsi le processus pour les cinq prochains.
Sports betting is permitted under Paraguay’s gaming laws which date de 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 extrêmement controversé.
