Scientific Games Corporation has announced two new contracts for the company’s lottery division.
The company signed a contract with the West Virginia Lottery to supply its latest Central Monitoring and Control System, Connexus, and signed a three-year extension to its instant game contract with the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) in Canada.
The new West Virginia system will monitor approximately 14,000 gaming machines in more than 1,350 licensed Limited Video Lottery locations and five casinos throughout West Virginia. This technically sophisticated, next-generation system will replace Scientific Games’ AEGISTM video system and provide real-time monitoring of security events and financial meters, and will verify that only properly certified software is running on all gaming machines connected to the system.
“After a thorough and competitive procurement process, the selection of Scientific Games and their Connexus system allows us to provide both our licensed retailers and casinos with a modern monitoring and accounting platform that we feel confident will meet the current and future needs of our stakeholders,” said John Myers, acting director of the West Virginia Lottery.
“The West Virginia Lottery takes its role of ensuring the integrity, security and viability of West Virginia’s gaming business very seriously,” said Gavin Isaacs, president and CEO of Scientific Games. “Being chosen to deploy our next-generation Connexus system is a tribute to the very high standards by which the West Virginia Lottery operates and the powerful, yet cost-efficient and flexible attributes of the Connexus system.”
Scientific Games also announced that its existing five-year contract to provide lottery instant games to OLG has been extended for three additional years through November 30, 2018. With more than CA$1 billion in instant game retail sales in fiscal year 2014, OLG is currently ranked No. 1 in Canada for total instant game sales (La Fleur’s Almanac).
“We have a successful working relationship with Scientific Games,” said Wendy Montgomery, vice president lottery marketing and sales for OLG, “and look forward to the creativity the company continues to bring to the instant game product category.”
John Schulz, senior vice president of instant products for Scientific Games Lottery, added, “OLG continues to be a leader in product innovation. We are delighted to help them deliver the entertaining instant games to their players using insights from our new player segmentation study, a highly experienced team of game designers, and some of our most innovative new instant game play styles, textures, colors, sizes and packaging.”
