Prefeitura Municipal de Graça

Name

Prefeitura Municipal de Graça

Legal name

Prefeitura Municipal de Graça

Website

https://graca.ce.gov.br

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Prefeitura Municipal de Graça is the municipal government of Graça, Ceará, Brazil (~22,000 residents), delivering public services across health, education, sanitation, and urban planning through 13 secretariats and funded by local taxes and federal transfers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Graça

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Impostos e Taxas Municipais: Own-source municipal tax revenue including IPTU (property tax), ISS (service tax), and other local taxes and fees levied by the municipality.
2. Transferências Intergovernamentais: Federal and state revenue transfers including FPM (municipal participation fund), ICMS, FUNDEB, SUS transfers for health, social assistance funds (FMAS), and parliamentary amendments (federal, state, and municipal).
3. Contribuição de Iluminação Pública (CIP): Public lighting contribution collected by the municipality to fund public lighting infrastructure.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Prefeitura Municipal de Graça is the municipal government authority providing free public services to approximately 22,000 residents of Graça, Ceará, Brazil. The municipality delivers primary healthcare through 9 UBS units, basic education to 600+ students, social assistance via CRAS/CREAS, public works, public lighting, cultural and sports programs, agricultural support, and environmental management, supported by a comprehensive digital transparency and e-government portal infrastructure.

Product overview

Prefeitura Municipal de Graça operates a unified digital government services platform consisting of multiple integrated modules accessible through its main portal. The core offering includes a Transparency Portal for public fiscal oversight, e-SIC for citizen information requests, and an Employee Portal for municipal worker services. Additional service modules cover taxpayer services (Portal do Contribuinte) with electronic invoicing, a Health Portal for medication and medical services, a Licitations and Contracts portal for public procurement, an Open Data portal with structured exports, and an Education Portal for students. The platform also provides accessibility tools including VLibras for sign language interpretation, high contrast options, and text resizing. Citizens can access services like issuing electronic invoices, downloading pay stubs, requesting identity documents, participating in public consultations, and filing complaints through the Ouvidoria system. The municipality also maintains a fleet management system, medication distribution tracking, and various council participation mechanisms including the CMAS, CMDCA, CMDM, and CMDI for social oversight.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Portal da Transparência Transparency portal providing public access to government accounts, fiscal reports (RGF, RREO), budgets (LOA, LDO, PPA), public accounts (PCG, PCS), and expenditure information as mandated by Brazilian fiscal responsibility and access to information laws.
• e-SIC (Serviço de Informações ao Cidadão) Electronic citizen information service that allows residents to submit information requests digitally under Brazil's Access to Information Law (Lei 12.527/2011), with tracking and response mechanisms.
• Portal do Contribuinte Taxpayer portal enabling registered citizens and businesses to issue electronic invoices (NF-e), access tax certificates, and manage municipal tax-related services online.
• Portal do Servidor Employee portal allowing municipal workers to access and download their pay stubs (contracheque) and manage employment-related documents and services.
• Ouvidoria Citizen ombudsman service providing both online forms and institutional information for complaints, suggestions, and general inquiries about municipal services.
• Portal da Saúde Health services portal providing access to medication lists, health unit information, pharmaceutical services, health plans, and SUS-related municipal health programs.
• Licitações e Contratos Public procurement and contracts portal displaying tendering processes, dispensation notices, adherence agreements, public calls, and official municipal contracts with associated documentation.
• Portal de Dados Abertos Open data portal providing structured machine-readable datasets in JSON and CSV formats covering municipal operations including budgets, personnel, vehicles, contracts, laws, and services.
• Portal do Universitário Education portal providing information and services specifically for university students from the Graça municipality education network.
• Pesquisa de Satisfação Citizen satisfaction survey system that collects feedback on various municipal services including administration, ombudsman, transparency, sanitation, education, health, and social assistance for continuous service improvement.

Quantifiable outcome

• More than 600 students participated in SPAECE 2022 state learning assessment.
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• ATRICON (Associação dos Membros dos Tribunais de Contas do Brasil)coreOthersATRICON is the association of Brazilian Courts of Accounts. The municipality participates in the Radar da Transparência Pública initiative, a national transparency monitoring system. The portal's atricon.php page systematically maps compliance with 19 areas of municipal transparency obligations including budgets, procurement, contracts, human resources, health, education, social assistance, and LGPD. This partnership ensures the municipality's transparency meets national regulatory standards and undergoes periodic external evaluation.
• Governo Federal do BrasilcoreOthersFederal government transfers constitute the primary external funding stream for municipal operations. FUNDEB, FPM, SUS, FMAS, and federal parliamentary amendments flow from the federal government to the municipality. The municipality also adheres to federal laws including Lei 14.133/2021 (procurement), Lei 12.527/2011 (access to information), Lei 14.129/2021 (digital government), and LGPD. Additionally, the municipality participates in VLibras (accessibility tool for deaf users) provided by the federal government digital services platform.
• Governo do Estado do CearácoreOthersState government transfers including ICMS revenue sharing, state parliamentary amendments, and sectoral transfers for health, education, and social assistance. State-level oversight by TCE-CE (State Court of Accounts). Publications in the Diário Oficial do Estado (DOE) and JORNAL O POVO for legal procurement notices.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Prefeitura Municipal de Santana do Acaraú: Small neighboring Ceará municipality with the same municipal governance structure, FUNDEB/SUS transfer dependency, and transparency/procurement compliance obligations. Closely comparable in scale, mandate, and operating context.
• Prefeitura Municipal de Sobral: Municipal prefecture of Sobral, Ceará — a larger Ceará municipality providing the same full range of municipal public services (health, education, social assistance, transparency, procurement) with comparable digital governance and federal compliance obligations. Highly comparable in function, regulatory environment, and Brazilian municipal governance model.
• Prefeitura Municipal de Viçosa do Ceará: Neighboring small Ceará municipality operating under identical state and federal regulatory frameworks (LRF, LAI, LGPD, Lei 14.133/2021). Comparable in population scale, service mandate, and digital transparency obligations, making it a near-identical peer for benchmarking.
• Prefeitura Municipal de Mucambo: Small Ceará municipality in the same Sertão de Sobral microregion as Graça, providing the same public services under identical federal and state oversight. Highly comparable in population scale, fiscal structure, and digital governance obligations.

Broad incumbents

• Governo do Estado do Ceará: State-level government of Ceará that provides intergovernmental transfers (ICMS, state amendments), sets sectoral policy, and exercises oversight through TCE-CE. Operates an overlapping set of public administration functions at a higher tier of government, directly shaping the fiscal and regulatory environment of municipal prefectures like Graça.
• Prefeitura Municipal de Fortaleza: Capital city of Ceará and largest municipality in the state — performs the same core municipal government functions (health, education, social assistance, transparency, procurement) at a much larger scale. Operates under the same Brazilian regulatory framework (LRF, LAI, LGPD) but with vastly greater fiscal autonomy and administrative capacity.

Others

• ASPEC Informática: Brazilian technology vendor that operates the Portal do Servidor platform serving Graça's municipal employees. Provides payroll, HR, and administrative software solutions to a large number of Brazilian municipal prefectures, making it an enabling technology partner rather than a direct governance competitor.

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Instagraminstagram.com/prefeituradegraca
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/prefeitura-municipal-de-gra%C3%A7a

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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