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Cape Town - Eighteen companies are vying for the national lottery operator contract valued at R40bn, the National Lotteries Board (NLB) said on Tuesday.
"The focus for the third licence period is a more African lottery that responds to our government's call to address localisation issues," NLB chairperson Alfred Nevhutanda said.
"Bidding companies have to demonstrate a commitment to align their operations to the procurement act, information technology regulations, broad based black economic empowerment principles, and to empower local businesses by expanding the lottery footprint."
Applicants were encouraged to use state-owned enterprises such as the government printer and Telkom in operations.
The 18 companies had all purchased the request for proposal document - at R50 000 each - which outlined the procedure to bid for the contract, spokesperson Sershan Naidoo said.
"All parties in possession of the request for proposal document will access additional information and communicate with the NLB through the secure and access-controlled virtual data room," Naidoo said.
Interested parties would then submit their "fit and proper" details and a declaration of interest by the end of the month.
Completed applications had to be submitted by the end of November, with an accompanying non-refundable fee of R2.5m. The successful bidder would be announced at the end of August 2014.
