SCOMMESSE SPORTIVE

Paraguay – Aperte le offerte per le scommesse sportive per il nuovo titolare della licenza

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.

Un totale di sei società hanno richiesto i termini e le condizioni dell'offerta, ma solo tre hanno presentato le loro offerte. L'apertura formale delle offerte ha avuto luogo presso la sede di 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.

Per quanto riguarda le offerte economiche, Daruma Sam SA ha offerto un canone del 22%, mentre il consorzio BGaming – Gambling SA ha offerto il 27% e Playtech il 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.   

Alla società locale Daruma Sam è stato concesso il diritto esclusivo di offrire scommesse sportive prima dell'ultima FIFA World Cup per cinque anni. A settembre Conajzar ha aperto il bando del bando pubblico n. 01/2022 aprendo l'iter per i prossimi cinque.

Sports betting is permitted under Paraguay’s gaming laws which risalgono al 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 estremamente controverso.