Monday, November 17, 2008
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND (U.S.) – November 17, 2008 –As previously disclosed in Lottomatica's third-quarter earnings results on November 13, GTECH Corporation confirms it has signed a 10-year contract with the Kansas Lottery to supply and operate the video central system that will monitor electronic gaming machines at up to six gaming facilities in the state of Kansas.
This contract, which is expected to generate revenues to GTECH of approximately $20 million over the contract term, follows a competitive procurement process, and has been approved by the Kansas Lottery Commission and the Kansas Information Technology Office.
Under the terms of the contract, GTECH, working with its subsidiary SPIELO Manufacturing ULC, will install the Company’s latest video central system, INTELLIGEN™, and provide ongoing services to the Kansas Lottery including operation and maintenance of the system. The system is expected to be operational by mid-2009. In addition to using a widely-accepted gaming industry protocol to allow electronic gaming machines to communicate with the system, INTELLIGEN is also capable of supporting additional protocols as they become available.
Moreover, the system will allow the Lottery to monitor individual electronic gaming machines, in real time, and support in-house and wide-area progressive electronic gaming machines. The gaming facilities in Kansas will procure the electronic gaming machines on behalf of the Kansas Lottery
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