The RFEF opts for Hawk-Eye Innovations as a provider of VAR and Mediapro announces the contest challenge

The RFEF opts for Hawk-Eye Innovations as a provider of VAR and Mediapro announces the contest challenge The Royal Spanish Federation of football (RFEF) opts for the subsidiary of Sony to the detriment of Mediapro has announced that the competition will use understanding to their bases "benefited especially to one of the two suppliers, in a way that was irrelevant the" economic offer and the quality of the technical aspects".

La Real Federaci n Espa ola de F tbol (RFEF) It has opted for the company Hawk-Eye Innovationsa subsidiary of Sony, as the technology provider for Video assistance to arbitration (VAR) for the First and second Division during the season 2019 / 2020.

In the election, other than deja fuera a Mediapro that he also went to the contest, according to the RFEF "is has taken into account the vast experience of Hawk-Eye, FIFA awarded the world 2018 Russia and UEFA Champions League and which also provides this technology to all major European leagues".

The reaction of Mediapro did not wait and this Wednesday the audiovisual group has announced that it disputed the result of the competition since in his view "the contest benefit especially to one of the two suppliers, so that the offer was irrelevant "economic and technical quality".

In addition, stresses that its offer was "the most advantageous of the presented two meaning a" saving almost one million euros .

MediaPro, which provides services from VAR to 16 competitions around the world, believes that the bases of the contest organized by the Spanish FA were based on subjective criteria which in advance attached contract and that such practice contradicts the doctrine of the CNMC reflected in the report on the proposal for the RFEF for The marketing of the broadcasting rights audiovisual in Europe and international for the final of the Copa del Rey 2019 which States that "the procedure designed by the RFEF intends to be a competitive process. However, the RAC maintains wide discretion for the adjudicator and a high lack of transparency, aspects that would prevent the development of a competitive process. Therefore, marketing conditions not would be adjusted to the required minimum standard... "."

For Mediapro, while the terms of the contest may seem apparently competitive, higher score due to a single criterion: the number of competitions in which has been paid service. Requirement that benefited only to another operator, ensure from the group.

MediaPro has also offered to provide services of VAR to the second division and that it has excluded the allocation provided for in the RFEF competition possibly because of the difficulty for other operators to ensure this service.

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