EveryMatrix from Malta first won the tender competition in 2020 to become Norsk Tipping’s new provider of electronic services and payment. After Buypass – where Norsk Tipping owns 50 percent – complained, they got the contract worth 1.5 billion kroner. Only the two companies wanted the contract. The Maltese company then sued and demanded up to NOK 398 million. Norsk Tipping satisfied But the court has now rejected the claim. It was Finansavisen that first mentioned the case. – We are satisfied that the court shares our view that Norsk Tipping has handled this procurement in line with the regulations, says communications director Tonje Sagstuen in Norsk Tipping to Finansavisen. SATISFIED: Communications Director Tonje Sagstuen is pleased that Norsk Tipping won the lawsuit. Photo: Norsk Tipping The Maltese company must also pay Norsk Tipping NOK 2.4 million in legal costs. Lawyer Morten Goller, who represents EveryMatrix, tells Finansavisen that the company has not yet considered whether they will appeal the case. Norsk Tipping rejected the company, among other things, because they argued that EveryMatrix in the offer did not disclose the subsidiaries they depended on to do the job, and what they should contribute. Doubts were also raised that they had the necessary material resources, and that they were, among other things, dependent on external developers in Ukraine. Must take responsibility Norsk Tipping argued with serious doubt whether EveryMatrix met the requirements for the absence of a conflict of interest. Here, the court points out, among other things, that the company should have had a plan for how to stop linking to companies that operate gambling in Norway. The company, for its part, argued that they did not offer payment services to avoid the Norwegian payment ban, and that payments to and from Norway had been terminated before the contract was to be entered into. EveryMatrix rejected all the claims, believing they could provide all the documentation with a short additional deadline. But Østre Innlandet District Court rejected this, and has now acquitted Norsk Tipping. The court believes that Norsk Tipping, as the client, has not committed a sufficiently qualified breach of the procurement rules. The judgment states that the Maltese company alone must take responsibility for having provided deficient and misleading information on how the delivery was to take place, as well as not having met the requirements for documentation of the subcontractors’ resources.
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