A commercial court in Madrid has again ruled in favour Mediapro after the Spanish Football Federation excluded it from the tender for the country’s VAR system.
In May 2019, the Federation published a call for tenders for the electronic video referee system to cover all official competitions from the 2019-20 to the 2022-23 season including LaLiga and Copa del Rey.
The Federation chose Hawk-Eye, a pioneer in computer vision systems, which made its debut in 2001 and is now owned by Sony. Mediapro, which had provided VAR services for the 2018-19 season challenged the ruling and was subsequently awarded €1.2 million compensation.
The tender was found to have lacked transparency and drafted so that the contract was awarded to one specific operator
Following the ruling Mediapro requested a clarification of the sentence, questioning the amount of the ruling. The €3,375,266 initially claimed should have been reduced to €2,125,369, not €1,249,897, as was erroneously established in the sentence.
This week, the commercial court ruled the amount payable should be €2,125,369.
