Gaming Casinos opens the competition for a casino slot in Aysén

The Superintendency of Gambling Casinos, a service dependent on the Ministry of Finance, has formally declared open the process for granting a gambling casino operating permit for a slot in the Aysén Region. The decision is contained in exempt resolution No. 992, dated October 14, 2026, published in extract in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Chile No. 44,578, on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, in Section I (General Norms), with official reference CVE 2887232. The schedule sets the download of the Technical Specifications starting from that same October 20 and the submission of technical and economic bids for April 12, 2027.

The competition is framed within Law No. 19,995, on General Bases for the Authorization, Operation, and Supervision of Gambling Casinos, and Supreme Decree No. 1,722 of 2015, of the Ministry of Finance, which approves the Regulations for the Processing and Granting of Gambling Casino Operating Permits. The published extract does not state investment amounts or employment goals: those parameters are contained in the Technical Specifications that the regulator makes available to interested parties on its website.

The process is resolved entirely within the Superintendency of Gambling Casinos, whose acting head signs the administrative act. The publication in the Official Gazette constitutes the milestone that formally begins the countdown of deadlines for interested operators in the region.

Technical Specifications and competition schedule

The Technical Specifications are downloaded exclusively from the site https://www.scj.cl, free of charge and without prior registration according to the text of the extract. The published deadlines are as follows:

• Start of Technical Specifications download: October 20, 2026.
• End of Technical Specifications download: April 11, 2027.
• Submission of technical and economic bids: Monday, April 12, 2027, at 10:00 AM.
• Place of delivery: Superintendency of Gambling Casinos, Morandé Street No. 360, 4th floor, commune of Santiago.

The download window extends for nearly six months, so that interested parties have that full period to prepare their proposals before the opening of the bids.

Signing of the act and official publication

Exempt resolution No. 992 was issued in Santiago on October 14, 2026, and signed by Eduardo Cáceres Guzmán, Acting Superintendent of Gambling Casinos. The text appears in Section I of issue No. 44,578, corresponding to Tuesday, October 20, 2026, under the General Norms heading and with reference CVE 2887232.

This is an extract, meaning the summarized version of the administrative act that the service submits for publication, and not the full text of the resolution.

A second process opened on the same day

In the same edition and with the identical date, the Superintendency of Casinos published exempt resolution No. 993, which declares open the process for granting a casino operation permit for a national quota (CVE 2887230). This second process replicates the same calendar: download of Technical Specifications between October 20, 2026, and April 11, 2027, and submission of bids on Monday, April 12, 2027, at 10:00 hours, at the same address: Morandé No. 360.

Both acts share the same signatory and date of issuance, meaning the industry faces two simultaneous calls with identical deadlines.

The opening of this competition enables, for the first time in the current cycle, competition for an operation quota in the Aysén Region, a slot that until now had not appeared among the processes opened by the regulator. For operators, the relevant milestone is the download of the Technical Specifications, where the investment requirements, infrastructure demands, and employment conditions that the permit will impose on the awardee in the region will be known.

Source: Official Gazette of the Republic of Chile, No. 44,578, Tuesday, October 20, 2026, Section I (General Norms), p. 1 (official reference: CVE 2887232).