NCEMS Tender for South African LPMs Awarded The South African National Gambling Board has announced the winning bid for the country’s NCEMS (National Central Electronic Monitoring System). The new 8-year NCEMS contract has been awarded to Route Monitoring (Pty ) Ltd. THE NCEMS monitors South Africa’s more than 11 500 operational LPM (Limited Payout Machine) Slots situated in pubs, clubs, shebeens and taverns across the country. LPMs (or AWPs as they are known in some markets) have a limited wager and limited prize and make up the country’s route market. Although national legislation allows for a total of 50 000 LPM slots outside of casinos, the roll-out of LPMs has been somewhat slow, but LPM GGR is projected to expand
at a 7.5% compound annual rate to R3.9 billion in 2021, from R2.7 billion in 2016. Route Monitoring (Pty) Ltd’s contract includes the supply, installation, commisioning, operation, management and maintenance of a national central monitoring system (NCEMS) for limited payout machines in the republic of South Africa and collection of related monitoring fees for eight years. It is believed that the award may be challenged by previous CEMS Operator, Zonke Monitoring Systems.
New Gaming Regulatory Body for Mpumalanga The Mpumalanga Gambling Board (MGB) and the Mpumalanga Liquor Authority (MLA) officialy merged to form a new regulatory body called the Mpumalanga Economic Regulator (MER), that will oversee all gaming and liquorrelated regulation. The new regulatory entity, its office bearers, vision and mission can be viewed on the MER website at www.mer.org.za