Lottery manager faces $350,000 in damages

Washington, D.C. - The District’s current lottery manager was assessed more than $350,000 in penalties this week for a series of system failures that left retailers temporarily unable to issue tickets and account for the tickets sold. Lottery Technology Enterprises was ordered Thursday by a D.C. contracting officer to pay $351,482 in liquidated damages for performance breakdowns in 2007 and 2008. The penalties come as LTE is locked in a heated political battle with W2I, a firm that was given a contract to manage the lottery by Mayor Adrian Fenty, only to see that contract tabled by the city council. “Once again you have a contractor who has shown it cannot perform and service a lottery contract the way it should be serviced,” said The damages assessed by contracting officer Eric Payne break down like this: $86,582 for a... [read full story]