Préfecture des Bouches-du-Rhône

Name

Préfecture des Bouches-du-Rhône

Legal name

Préfecture des Bouches-du-Rhône

Website

https://bouches-du-rhone.pref.gouv.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1790

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

The Préfecture des Bouches-du-Rhône is the French State's local administrative authority in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, headquartered in Marseille. It delivers statutory government services — civil documentation, immigration, security, and regulatory coordination — to residents, businesses, and local collectivities across the department.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Administrative Services

NAICS

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (921), Regulation, Licensing, and Inspection of Miscellaneous Commercial Sectors (92615), Administration of Environmental Quality Programs (9241)

akta.pro primary industry

State/Provincial Licensing, Permitting & Regulatory Administration (Cross-sector) (BPAIABAO)

akta.pro secondary industry

State/Provincial Environmental Protection & Natural Resources Administration (BPAIABAL)

Keywords

• Public administration services
• Civil documentation
• Vehicle registration
• Identity documents
• Government services

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

The Préfecture des Bouches-du-Rhône provides statutory government administrative services to residents, businesses, associations, and local authorities of the Bouches-du-Rhône department. Its core offerings include civil documentation (national ID cards, passports, driving licenses, vehicle registration certificates), reception services for foreign nationals, and the France Services network consolidating multiple administrative procedures under a single point of access.

Product overview

Préfecture des Bouches-du-Rhône operates a unified administrative services portal providing digital citizen services organized by government action domains. The platform offers direct online services including Carte Grise (vehicle registration), Permis de Conduire (driver's license), Carte d'Identité (national ID), Passeport (passport), and Accueil des Étrangers (foreigners reception). Additional service categories span agriculture, environment, security, health, transportation, and local governance. The portal serves as the primary digital interface for the French state services in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, integrating France Services network for accessible multi-administrative procedure access.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Carte Grise (Vehicle Registration)

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Préfecture du Nord: Departmental prefecture for Nord (Lille), delivering the same French State services to a major department with industrial, urban, and cross-border (Belgium) characteristics. Strong functional parity with Bouches-du-Rhône's prefecture.
• Préfecture du Rhône: Departmental prefecture for Rhône (Lyon), one of the largest French prefectures by population served. Comparable in scope of civil services, regulatory oversight, and state-coordination mandate within a major metropolitan department.
• Préfecture de la Gironde: Departmental prefecture for Gironde (Bordeaux) with the same mix of civil documentation, environmental coordination, security administration, and state-policy implementation. Highly comparable as a peer French departmental prefecture.
• Préfecture de la Haute-Garonne: Departmental prefecture for Haute-Garonne (Toulouse), offering the standard departmental French State administrative services. Comparable in mandate and service portfolio to the Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture.
• Préfecture des Alpes-Maritimes: Departmental prefecture for Alpes-Maritimes (Nice), operating under identical statutory mandate from the French State. Provides the same carte grise, ID, passport, and regulated-activity licensing services to residents and businesses of its department — making it the closest functional mirror of the Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture.

Broad incumbents

• Service-public.fr: National French government information and procedures portal operated under the Direction de l'information légale et administrative (DILA). It is the broader incumbent national platform through which citizens access administrative procedure information, complementary to (and increasingly overlapping with) the prefecture's own portals.
• Préfecture de Police de Paris: Paris-level counterpart operating as a specialized police-administrative prefecture; provides the same statutory state-representation and licensing functions but for Paris, and is generally larger and more security-focused. Directly comparable as a French state-departmental/territorial prefecture performing the same monopoly on licensing and state-authority representation.
• FranceConnect: National single sign-on identity layer operated by the French State, used by prefectures and other administrations to authenticate citizens on administrative portals. Comparable as a national-state infrastructure player whose role intersects the prefecture's digital service delivery.
• Agence Nationale des Titres Sécurisés (ANTS): National agency issuing secure French identity documents (carte grise via SIV, permis de conduire, CNI, passeport). Increasingly the upstream national platform whose processes the prefecture executes locally — making it the key structural incumbent shaping the prefecture's service delivery.
• Ministère de l'Intérieur: Parent ministry to which the prefecture reports and from which it draws its mandate. Sets policy, allocates budget, and defines the operational framework within which the Préfecture des Bouches-du-Rhône executes its state-representation role.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Prefet13
• Facebookfacebook.com/Prefet13
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/pr%C3%A9fecture-des-bouches-du-rh%C3%B4ne
• Instagraminstagram.com/prefet13

Compliance1 record

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