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Louisiana Picks GTECH

WEST GREENWICH, Rhode Island – (PRESS RELEASE) -- GTECH Holdings Corporation (NYSE: GTK) today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, GTECH Corporation, has been selected as the preferred vendor to provide a video gaming monitoring system and site controllers for the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections (DPS&C) video gaming program. This decision follows a competitive procurement involving four other bidders.

"GTECH's Enterprise Series Video central system has effectively set the standard in the video gaming industry," said GTECH President and CEO W. Bruce Turner. "Over the past three years, in nearly every RFP for replacement or new deployment of a distributed video gaming central system for which GTECH submitted a bid, GTECH was named the successful system provider. In Louisiana, we offered an industry-proven management solution that will meet the needs of the DPS&C today and in the future, and it has the capability to support any industry-standard protocol."

Upon successful completion of negotiations with the DPS&C, GTECH will replace the existing video central system, currently provided by another vendor, with the Company's Enterprise Series(TM) (ES) Video central system. ES Video will monitor the integrity and security of approximately 15,000 video gaming devices (VGD) at approximately 2,800 distributed locations in the state. GTECH will also provide internet protocol (IP)-ready video site controllers at these locations. A video site controller is a management device that links the VGDs to the central system, and provides validation of winning receipts and printing of retailer reports. The new system is expected to be operational by June 2006.

Upon the successful completion of negotiations, GTECH expects to generate revenues of approximately $8 million to $10 million from the sale of the central system and the video site controllers.

GTECH provides, or has been awarded contracts to provide, video central systems and/or services in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Oregon, Sweden, Italy, Jamaica, Switzerland, the Canadian Provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta, and to Atlantic Lottery (Canada) and the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL).

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