Inside Asian Gaming

IAG SEP 2022年9月 亞博匯 62 maintain the stability of the industry operations currently affected by the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia”, one may well ask why the government has refused to delay the re-tender and to extend the casino concessions for more than six months? As the saying goes, the situation is what it is. So, how does one go about framing a winning bid? Incumbency will be a distinct, though likely not quantifiable advantage, of course, in part due to the compressed time frame for the entire process. While the government has said that the tender process will offer a level playing field, it is not obvious what that means. In 2001, the Tender Commission developed its own scoring weights, which were not disclosed to the bidders, and only became known when the Commission’s comprehensive report was released subsequent to the award of the 3 concessions. Incumbency is disclosed in that report as justifying a scoring “bonus” for SJM, as the corporate successor to STDM, which had held the pre-existing monopoly casino concession. Assuming the Tender Commission this time around similarly keeps its scoring criteria and weights in camera, bidders are left to speculate about which of the 11 articulated objectives will be accorded the highest value in the scoring process. Rather than try and cover all bases, a more productive approach may be to consolidate the criteria and focus on two or three of those objectives. Increasing international tourism is clearly a significant objective, under which head can be subsumed a number of other criteria, such as MICE, entertainment, major sporting events and gastronomy. To develop each segment requires establishing the baseline data starting point, assessing the COLUMNISTS