The District of Columbia appears to be pressing ahead with its plans to sole-source its mobile sports betting contract to DC Lottery operator Intralot.

On Monday, the DC Council’s Committee on Finance and Revenue held a public hearing into its plans to authorize sports betting under the control of the DC Lottery, which is powered by technology provider Intralot. DC Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the Sports Wagering Lottery Amendment Act last week.

Since DC contains no casinos, the legislation authorizes the DC Lottery to offer mobile wagering. Monday’s discussion centered around Council chair Phil Mendelson’s controversial proposal to allow the DC Lottery to skip the required competitive procurement process to identify a mobile betting tech provider, effectively handing the contract to Intralot while leaving other firms out in the cold.

Some of the day’s sharpest criticism of this proposal came from Dorothy Brizill, exec director of DC Watch, a longtime watchdog of DC’s occasionally sketchy local politics. Brizill called the attempt to exempt the DC Lottery from the procurement process “simply unprecedented.”