Scientific Games Corporation announced the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery and the North Carolina Education Lottery have chosen the company to provide lottery services for at least 10 years.
Through a contract extension until August 2026, Scientific Games will continue to provide the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery with instant game design, planning and manufacturing, plus a Cooperative Services Program for managing instant game retail sales, warehousing and distribution to 1,900 Arkansas lottery retailers. In addition, Scientific Games will continue to provide additional services for the players club, Play It Again second-chance program and Points for Prizes program.
Director, Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Bishop Woosley said, “Our CSP partnership with Scientific Games for instant game management has driven performance. Together, we have worked to grow instant game sales and increase the number of scholarships awarded to Arkansas students.” Woosley noted the Lottery expects to save millions of dollars and award thousands more scholarships over the life of the contract extension with Scientific Games.
Scientific Games has been the primary provider of instant games since the Lottery started in 2009. Today instant games represent a high percentage of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery’s total revenue and the highest percentage in the U.S.
The North Carolina Education Lottery selected Scientific Games to print and distribute the instant tickets through at least 2025. Scientific Games won the scratch-off ticket printing work over a joint bid by IGT and Pollard Banknote, which still will produce some tickets. IGT, Scientific Games and Greek-based Intralot all bid for the larger “gaming system” contract. According to the final report, IGT received 971 points and Scientific Games received 967 points on a 1,000-point scale. IGT’s bid was $17.8 million based on projected 2017 sales, about $465,000 less than Scientific Games’ offer. William Jourdain, a lottery deputy executive director involved in grading the bids, said, “This was an extremely close competition. Price was essentially the deciding factor.”
Scientific Games operates on six continents providing lottery games, services, systems and retail technology to more than 150 lotteries globally, including nearly every North American lottery.
