DDTM35

What DDTM35 does

DDTM35 (Direction Départementale des Territoires et de la Mer d'Ille-et-Vilaine) is a departmental direction of the French State operating under the authority of the Préfet d'Ille-et-Vilaine and supervised jointly by the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Ecological Transition. As a 'service déconcentré de l'État,' it is wholly owned by the French State, was established via the 2009 reform of departmental interministerial directions (décret n° 2009-1484), and serves the roughly one-million-resident Ille-et-Vilaine department from its Rennes headquarters and three sub-prefectures (Fougères-Vitré, Redon, Saint-Malo). It falls within the Zone de défense et de sécurité Ouest, the largest such zone in France covering 20 departments across Brittany, Centre-Val de Loire, Normandy, and Pays de la Loire.

Its core services are the issuance and administration of secure titles and regulatory authorizations — national identity cards, passports, driving licenses, vehicle registration (SIV), weapon permits (SIA), protest-march declarations, sports-event declarations (SIMS), and oversight of local government acts — delivered via national platforms (ANTS, demarches-simplifiees.fr, HistoVec, Mes points permis) with FranceConnect single sign-on and ACCEO accessibility integration. The 2026 re-launch of the Agent conversationnel IA, a multilingual (20+ language) conversational assistant for foreign nationals handling residence, naturalization, and asylum queries, is the entity's most visible AI capability. Adjacent departmental directorates (DDETS, DDPP, SGCD) share support functions and partially overlap in scope.

The business model is non-commercial: all services are provided free of charge and financed through the national government's operating budget and general taxation; there is no revenue generation, no pricing structure, and no commercial customers. End-user 'segments' are individual citizens, businesses, and local governments, but engagement is driven by legal obligation rather than market demand. The operating model is therefore that of a public-sector administrator, and conventional SaaS or PE-style revenue, growth, and concentration metrics do not apply.

Name

DDTM35

Legal name

Direction Départementale des Territoires et de la Mer d'Ille-et-Vilaine

Website

https://ille-et-vilaine.gouv.fr

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

DDTM35 is the French State's departmental direction in Ille-et-Vilaine, providing free administrative services — identity documents, vehicle registration, permits, and event declarations — to citizens, businesses, and local governments via physical offices and national digital platforms.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Administration Services

NAICS

Public Administration (92), International Affairs (92812), Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities (922), Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development (925120)

SIC

Services-Management Services (8741)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPADAHAB

Asylum & Refugee Status Determination (RSD) Support

Business & Public Services/International Organizations & Development/Refugee, Migration & Displacement Services

SECONDARYHDAEAEAG

Public Sector & Government ERP

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Enterprise Platforms & Databases/Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Platforms

Keywords

• Public administration services
• Identity document services
• Vehicle registration services
• Immigration administrative services
• Territorial development coordination

Headquarters

HQ city

Rennes

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices9 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Government Administrative Services: The Préfecture operates as a government administrative body funded by public tax revenue. Services are provided free of charge to citizens and are financed through the national government's operating budget. There is no commercial revenue generation.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels8 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

DDTM35 operates the official departmental state services portal for Ille-et-Vilaine, providing centralized administrative services including identity documents (CNI, passport), driver's license and vehicle registration procedures, foreign nationals processing, business regulations, public safety administration, and emergency coordination. Services are delivered free of charge through a combination of four physical offices (Rennes headquarters plus three sub-prefectures), national digital self-service platforms (ANTS, demarches-simplifiees.fr, SIMS), and a multilingual AI chatbot for foreign resident inquiries.

Product overview

DDTM35 operates the official departmental prefecture website for Ille-et-Vilaine, France, providing citizens with a unified portal for administrative services. The offering is a platform of interconnected digital services rather than a single product, comprising online procedure portals (vehicle registration via ANTS, driver's license management, protest declaration via demarches-simplifiees.fr, sports event declaration via SIMS), an AI-powered multilingual chatbot for foreign resident inquiries, and a thematic contact form system routing citizen requests to appropriate departmental services. Underlying services include HistoVec for vehicle history verification and Mes points permis for driver's license point tracking.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Permis de conduire (Driver's License Services)

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability2 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

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Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Préfecture des Bouches-du-Rhône: Departmental prefecture for Bouches-du-Rhône, executing identical state administrative functions including foreign nationals processing, vehicle registration via ANTS, and security coordination, with comparable scale as a major metropolitan department.
• Préfecture de la Loire-Atlantique: Departmental prefecture for Loire-Atlantique in western France, performing comparable statutory administrative functions and co-located within the same Zone de défense et de sécurité Ouest defense perimeter as Ille-et-Vilaine.
• Préfecture du Rhône: Departmental prefecture for the Rhône, operating with an analogous interministerial structure (DDT, DDETS, DDPP) and the same national digital platform stack, making it a structurally close peer in scale and service mix.
• Direction Départementale des Territoires et de la Mer du Morbihan: Neighboring DDTM in Brittany with an identical departmental mandate covering territorial development, environment, housing, and maritime affairs under the same Ministry of Ecological Transition oversight.
• Préfecture des Alpes-Maritimes: Departmental prefecture for Alpes-Maritimes with comparable identity, vehicle, residency, and security coordination mandates, including heightened Vigipirate activity given border-adjacent geography.
• Préfecture du Nord: French departmental prefecture serving the Nord department, performing the same statutory administrative, identity, residency, security coordination, and digital service delivery role as the Préfecture d'Ille-et-Vilaine. Directly comparable in mandate, structure, and national digital platform integration.
• Préfecture de la Haute-Garonne: Departmental prefecture for Haute-Garonne, executing the same statutory administrative services for citizens, businesses, and local governments under identical French regulatory frameworks and digital infrastructure.
• Préfecture de la Gironde: Departmental prefecture providing the same scope of state administrative services — identity, vehicle, residency, security — under the same French legal framework, with overlapping digital service offerings (SIMS, demarches-simplifiees.fr, ANTS).

Broad incumbents

• Préfecture de Police de Paris: Specialized territorial police authority in Paris that combines prefectural administrative functions with municipal policing powers. Comparable in statutory authority scope but with significantly broader mandate including public order enforcement.

Others

• Service-public.fr: National government information portal that consolidates administrative procedure information across all French prefectures. Acts as an upstream enabling platform whose content and digital procedures are implemented locally by entities like DDTM35.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/bretagnegouv
• Facebookfacebook.com/prefetbretagne
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ddtm35

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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