Ontario’s provincial gambling monopoly has selected Bede Gaming as its new digital platform provider in the hopes of boosting its online gambling site’s limp performance to date.

On Thursday, the Ontario Lottery & Gaming Corporation (OLG) announced that its competitive procurement process had identified the UK-based Bede as the best candidate to build OLG’s “new enterprise-wide digital foundation.”

OLG began its search for a new digital platform provider nearly two years ago, and it doesn’t expect the new player platform to be in operation until early 2020. Nonetheless, OLG’s chief operating officer Greg McKenzie said the monopoly was “looking forward to developing our relationship with Bede as OLG continues its digital transformation.”

Bede co-founder Michael Brady celebrated the “landmark” deal with OLG, which marks his company’s first North American deal. Brady called the deal “a huge recognition of the strength of our offering” and he predicted “a long and successful relationship with one of the most respected names in the worldwide lottery sector.”