GLI
GLI provides third-party testing and certification for online games, remote gaming platforms, sports betting systems, and digital lottery products.
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GLI is an active multi-entity testing brand. Gaming Laboratories International, LLC operates gaminglabs.com and is the A2LA-accredited Lakewood entity; GLI Europe B.V. holds separate RvA scopes; and six GLI legal entities have distinct UK approved areas. CVC is the group's first external investor, but its percentage and control split are undisclosed. No GLI company is the universal contracting, testing, or report-issuing entity.
Buyer decision brief
Use this summary to decide whether the offer belongs on your shortlist and which terms need a written answer.
Fit and use case
Editorial fitSuppliers and operators that can lock the product build, target rules, receiving authority, report recipients, and exact GLI contracting, testing, and report-issuing entities before work starts.
Primary offer: GLI Gaming Testing and Certification
Primary offer delivery
- New product testing or inspection
- Approval transfer or change review
Integration boundary: The supplier or operator must define the product, target markets, and exact GLI laboratory entity before submitting software, mathematics, documentation, or environment access.
Critical contract questions
Start with unresolved terms, negotiated terms, and dependencies that need a named owner.
Resolve before shortlist
No usable standard answer is available on the public terms.
- Price and completion scheduleNot disclosed
- GLI Gaming Testing and Certification · Commercial terms
Fix in the signed order
The answer changes by operator, market, package, or negotiated order.
7 of 9 shown- Market acceptanceSet in contract
- GLI Gaming Testing and Certification · Market and approvals
- Accreditation and approval routeSet in contract
- GLI Gaming Testing and Certification · Contract and supplier
- Contracting and report-issuing laboratorySet in contract
- GLI Gaming Testing and Certification · Contract and supplier
- Client and laboratory responsibilitiesSet in contract
- GLI Gaming Testing and Certification · Operating responsibilities
- Source code and confidential materialSet in contract
- GLI Gaming Testing and Certification · Operating responsibilities
- Report recipient and reuseSet in contract
- GLI Gaming Testing and Certification · Implementation
- Submission and test perimeterSet in contract
- GLI Gaming Testing and Certification · Implementation
Next buyer step
Ask GLI to resolve “Price and completion schedule” before moving GLI Gaming Testing and Certification to a commercial shortlist. Then compare the answer with the complete product record below.
Confirm every selected term in the proposal and signed order. No price, market approval, availability, or contracting entity is implied unless it is stated above.
What this provider offers
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- iGaming Compliance Providers · Service Provider
- iGaming Testing and Certification Labs · Service Provider
GLI Gaming Testing and Certification
Multi ProductFirst PartyAvailability: StandaloneGLI provides third-party testing and certification for online games, remote gaming platforms, sports betting systems, and digital lottery products.
Each approval and accreditation is limited to the named GLI legal entity, laboratory location, product category, and market. One GLI entity's scope cannot be extended to another entity in the group.
Products
Integration: The supplier or operator must define the product, target markets, and exact GLI laboratory entity before submitting software, mathematics, documentation, or environment access. Price and completion time are project-specific. Report reuse and regulator submission depend on the named recipient, jurisdiction, product version, and current approval of the issuing entity.
Key facts
- Gaming Laboratories International, LLC holds current A2LA accreditations to ISO/IEC 17025:2017, ISO/IEC 17020:2012, and ISO/IEC 17065:2012 through March 31, 2028
- GLI Europe B.V. holds RvA EN ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation L 372 from July 10, 2026 through October 1, 2027
- Six GLI legal entities held UKGC test-house approval in March 2026, with different scopes
- CVC Strategic Opportunities completed an investment into GLI and related entities as GLI's first external investor
Delivery options
New product testing or inspection
Delivery modelA scoped conformity-assessment project for one named GLI entity, laboratory location, product build, standards set, and recipient route.
Included
- + A submission inventory and frozen build identifier
- + Tests or inspections named in the agreed scope
- + Findings, corrected-build comparison, and agreed retesting
- + A report issued by the assigned GLI entity for the named recipients
Not included
- ! Regulator approval or a promise that the report will be accepted
- ! Products, markets, or methods outside the assigned entity's scope
- ! Automatic reuse by another GLI laboratory or receiving authority
- ! Post-release changes not included in the agreed change route
Approval transfer or change review
Delivery modelA bounded comparison of an existing result or approved build against a changed build, target rules, and the receiving authority's requirements.
Included
- + Existing report and build mapping
- + Change or jurisdiction gap analysis
- + Agreed delta tests and issue resolution
- + An addendum or new report when supported by the selected route
Not included
- ! Automatic certificate transfer
- ! Reliance by an unnamed regulator or report recipient
- ! Reuse across a different GLI legal entity without confirmation
- ! Unreviewed code, configuration, mathematics, or environment changes
Procurement record
Current product boundaries and the terms that still have to be fixed in the signed order or service agreement.
Known is usable now. Contract specific changes by order or market. Not disclosed has no usable standard term. Unknown remains unresolved. Outside provider scope is handled by the operator or another supplier.
Contract and supplier
- Contracting and report-issuing laboratoryContract specific
- The order must name the GLI legal entity, laboratory site, contract signatory, invoice issuer, test lead, and report issuer. Accreditation or approval held by another GLI company does not transfer to the engagement.
- Accreditation and approval routeContract specific
- The applicable ISO/IEC scope, laboratory location, product category, test method, target market, regulator approval, and any required local registration must all match the selected GLI entity and work order.
Implementation
- Submission and test perimeterContract specific
- The test plan must identify software and hardware versions, source code, mathematics, RNG, integrations, configuration, environments, languages, devices, standards, exclusions, dependencies, and evidence supplied by the client.
- Report recipient and reuseContract specific
- Name every intended recipient and market before testing. Reuse, gap analysis, report transfer, addenda, and reliance by another regulator or operator depend on the exact entity, scope, product version, and recipient rules.
Operating responsibilities
- Client and laboratory responsibilitiesContract specific
- The plan must allocate complete-build delivery, change disclosure, test accounts, environments, defect correction, retest approval, report submission, games-register work, regulator questions, and production-version control between client, laboratory, and license holder.
- Source code and confidential materialContract specific
- The agreement must define secure transfer, access, permitted locations, subcontractor access, retention, return or deletion, incident notice, and evidence handling for builds, source code, mathematics, credentials, logs, and reports.
Operations and service
- Change and retest workflowContract specific
- Define which product or configuration changes require review, delta testing, a new report, regulator notice, or emergency handling, and how the laboratory maps each result to the production release.
Commercial terms
- Price and completion scheduleNot disclosed
- Standard rates and completion times are unavailable. The quote must separate intake, testing, inspection or certification, travel or hardware, retests, extra markets, report amendments, regulator responses, priority handling, and cancellation.
Market and approval scope
- Market acceptanceContract specific
- Acceptance applies to the named laboratory, location, product, method, standard, report, recipient, and regulator. The GLI group footprint and one accreditation certificate are not universal market approval.
Exit and portability
- Engagement close and portabilityContract specific
- The work order must provide final reports, issue and retest records, tested hashes and versions, open-item ownership, regulator correspondence, client copies, retention and deletion dates, and any limits on transferring results to another laboratory.
Strengths
- + The Lakewood record separates testing, inspection, and product-certification accreditations for one named US entity instead of treating GLI as one universal laboratory.
- + GLI's digital service scope includes change management and approval-transfer work, so changed builds and cross-market reuse can be commissioned as explicit reviews rather than assumptions.
- + The Great Britain list exposes six GLI entities and their different product areas, giving buyers a regulator-specific entity check before submission.
What to verify in procurement
- ! Do not treat GLI's group footprint or a single accreditation certificate as universal regulator acceptance. Confirm the issuing legal entity, lab location, product category, and target jurisdiction before engagement.
- ! CVC invested in GLI in June 2026, but its ownership percentage and level of control are undisclosed. CVC does not hold disclosed 100-percent ownership.
- ! Standard prices and completion times are not disclosed. Both remain project-specific.
- ! A previous report can be reused only when the receiving regulator permits it and accepts the exact issuing lab, scope, product version, and report recipient structure.
Questions about GLI
Product, delivery, and company details that affect an operator order.
What controls a GLI testing schedule?
The schedule depends on the exact GLI entity and laboratory, product build, target rules, submission readiness, hardware or access needs, findings, remediation, retesting, and report recipients. No standard duration is published. The order should set dated inputs, review rounds, change controls, report delivery, and authority-response dependencies.
Does one GLI approval cover every GLI laboratory?
No. GLI approvals and accreditations belong to named legal entities, laboratory locations, product areas, methods, and markets. Great Britain lists six GLI entities with different approved areas. A buyer must match the contractor, testing site, report issuer, product build, and receiving authority before relying on any approval or earlier report.
Reference documents7
Key public documents supporting the company identity, primary offer, delivery route, and highest-priority questions above.
- DocumentUK Gambling Commission — gamblingcommission.gov.uk / page / approved test houses
- DocumentGaming Laboratories International — gaminglabs.com / privacy policy
- DocumentGaming Laboratories International and CVC — gaminglabs.com / press releases / gaming laboratories international gli welcom…
- DocumentGaming Laboratories International — gaminglabs.com / services / digital igaming
- DocumentUK Gambling Commission — gamblingcommission.gov.uk / guide / test houses
- DocumentGaming Laboratories International — gaminglabs.com / contact
- DocumentA2LA — customer.a2la.org / index.cfm
