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US – SG lands two decade-long contracts from Pennsylvania Lottery

By William - 5 October 2021

Scientific Games has won a 10-year base contract from the Pennsylvania Lottery to provide its instant games and Scientific Games Enhanced Partnership for lottery instant game services, as well as a 10-year base contract to provide lottery gaming systems services across the network of nearly 10,000 Pennsylvania Lottery retailers in the Commonwealth.

Supplying the Pennsylvania Lottery since its inception nearly 50 years ago, Scientific Games has a proven record partnering with the Lottery to responsibly drive record proceeds, including 10 consecutive years of $1bn profits for programmes benefitting older Pennsylvanians.

Drew Svitko, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Lottery, explained: “After careful evaluation of several proposals, Scientific Games was chosen to help us modernise our business so that we will be able to have a continuing impact on the programs that Pennsylvania seniors rely on every day.

“Things like free meals, transportation, care services, tax relief and prescription assistance are needed now more than ever. Our partnership will only strengthen Lottery’s mission and we look forward to the future.”

Following a competitive procurement process, the company was awarded both contracts based on its proposed Pennsylvania Lottery Scratch-Off games, advanced supply chain logistics, retailer equipment solutions, enterprise applications, analytics services and sales performance tools for the Lottery and its retailers.

The offerings include game portfolio and operational services, as well as continued investment in retail modernisation. Each of the two contracts may be renewed by the Lottery for up to four years.

Pat McHugh, Lottery Group Chief Executive for Scientific Games, said: “Scientific Games is honoured to continue our valued partnership with the Pennsylvania Lottery in their mission to maximise funding of the Commonwealth’s senior programmes.

“The Lottery is a shining example of success. Drew Svitko and his team’s vision for collaborating on great games and modernising retail and digital lottery sales has resulted in the Pennsylvania Lottery’s record-breaking proceeds to benefit seniors, ranking among the highest performing lotteries in the world.”

Under Scientific Games’ current contracts, from fiscal year 2009-10 to fiscal year 2020-21, the Pennsylvania Lottery performed significantly beyond industry averages with total retail sales growing over 73 per cent for a more than $2.2bn annual increase.

In May 2018, as part of the Lottery’s strategic expansion of game entertainment, Scientific Games launched Pennsylvania’s online/mobile games. The Pennsylvania iLottery program, which the company manages, has been recognised as one of the most commercially successful iLottery launches and is the first in the U.S. to reach $1bn in sales in less than two years.

McHugh added: “Scientific Games’ investment in retail and digital games, technology and services in collaboration the Pennsylvania Lottery has helped shape the player experience for the lottery industry.”