Volta Redonda

What Volta Redonda does

Volta Redonda is the municipal government (Prefeitura Municipal de Volta Redonda) of a city in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, founded in 1954 with a population of approximately 300,000 residents. It operates as a statutory public entity providing comprehensive municipal services including healthcare (Hospital São João Batista with 164 beds, Hospital Munir Rafful with 75 beds, Hospital Dr. Nelson dos Santos Gonçalves, 17+ UBSF basic health units, Policlínica da Cidadania approaching 3 million lifetime appointments, Municipal Pharmacy distributing 186 pharmaceutical presentations), education (municipal schools), public safety (Civil Defense responding to 981 occurrences in 2024, Guarda Municipal, Segurança Presente program), social assistance (CRAS, Minha Casa Minha Vida housing), economic development (Casa do Empreendedor serving 3,233 companies), and urban infrastructure (asphalt, drainage, public lighting, viaduct construction). Digital service delivery includes the Portal VR municipal portal, Saúde Digital VR health platform with mobile apps, PIX-based payment infrastructure, and real-time traffic control systems. Revenue is generated through municipal taxes (IPTU, ISS, COSIP), state revenue transfers (ICMS via DECLAN-IPM), fees for water/sewage services via autonomous utility SAAE-VR, permits, and active debt recovery programs (REFIS/CONCILIA VR offering up to 90% discount on interest and fines). The municipality is governed by Mayor Antonio Francisco Neto and serves a diversified citizen base across multiple segments including general residents, entrepreneurs, senior citizens, people with disabilities, youth, SUS patients, and vulnerable populations.

Name

Volta Redonda

Legal name

Prefeitura Municipal de Volta Redonda

Website

https://voltaredonda.rj.gov.br

Company type

Public

Founded year

1954

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Volta Redonda is a municipal government in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, providing healthcare, education, public safety, urban infrastructure, and economic development services to approximately 300,000 residents through hospitals, health units, digital platforms, and decentralized subprefectures.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

NAICS

Executive Offices (921110), Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (9251), Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (925)

SIC

Services-Management Services (8741), Water Supply (4941)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAIACAA

Mayor/City Manager & General Administration

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Local/Municipal Government Administration

SECONDARYBPAIACAD

Municipal Tax & Revenue Administration (Local)

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Local/Municipal Government Administration

SECONDARYBPAIACAF

Public Works & Municipal Infrastructure (Streets, Stormwater, Facilities)

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Local/Municipal Government Administration

SECONDARYBPAIACAM

Local Transportation, Parking & Mobility Administration

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Local/Municipal Government Administration

SECONDARYBPAIACAN

Economic Development & Business Licensing (Local)

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Local/Municipal Government Administration

Keywords

• Municipal government services
• Public healthcare administration
• Urban mobility infrastructure
• Citizen digital services
• SUS public health network

Headquarters

HQ city

Barra do Piraí

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Revenue model

1. IPTU (Imposto Predial e Territorial Urbano): Property and territorial tax collected annually from real estate owners, with discounts for early payment and exemptions for retirees/pensioners with income below 10 minimum wages
2. ISS (Imposto sobre Serviços): Service tax collected from service providers including electronic ISS and electronic invoice (Nota Fiscal Eletrônica) systems
3. ICMS/IPM Transferências: State revenue sharing (ICMS) distributed to municipalities based on value-added calculations through DECLAN-IPM system
4. Taxas e Tarifas Municipais: Municipal fees including COSIP (public lighting), permits, licenses, and utility services managed by SAAE-VR for water/sewage
5. Dívida Ativa: Active debt collection including REFIS/CONCILIA VR programs offering discounts up to 90% on interest and fines for tax debt regularization

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels9 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Volta Redonda is the municipal government (Prefeitura) of a city in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, serving approximately 300,000 residents. It delivers public services including healthcare (three municipal hospitals, basic health units), urban infrastructure (road paving, drainage, lighting), public safety (Civil Defense, Guarda Municipal), education, social assistance, and citizen-facing digital platforms (Portal VR for tax/licensing services and Saúde Digital VR for SUS queue management and medical results). The municipality also operates an autonomous water and sewage utility (SAAE-VR) and a free electric-bus public transport program (Tarifa Zero).

Product overview

Volta Redonda's digital presence consists of Portal VR as the central municipal government portal providing citizen services (taxation, licensing, transparency), and Saúde Digital VR as the digital health platform for accessing SUS queues and medical results. The ecosystem is developed and operated by EPDVR (Empresa de Processamento de Dados de Volta Redonda), with the municipality operating two main hospitals (HMMR and HSJB) as part of the public health service network.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Saúde Digital VR: Digital health platform for citizens using the public health network (SUS) in Volta Redonda
• Volta Redonda Cidade da Música
• Tarifa Zero
• Concilia VR
• REFIS 2026
• Policlínica da Cidadania
• Palácio 17 de Julho
• Programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida
• Segurança Presente
• Guarda Mirim
• Casa do Empreendedor

Quantifiable outcome

• Near 3 million healthcare appointments delivered at Policlínica da Cidadania over 17 years
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments7 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Micro and Small EntrepreneurscoreOthers · 29 December 2025Casa do Empreendedor Délio Avelar serves as direct support ecosystem for entrepreneurs with 9,459 annual attendances, 3,799 distinct clients, and 3,233 companies across 361 economic activities. NPS of 90.91 demonstrates strong citizen satisfaction.
• Sesc and SicomérciocoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 19 February 2025Partnership for city anniversary celebrations and events including shows, cultural performances, and community activities. Copa Diarinho de Futsal partnership with Diário do Vale newspaper.
• Ministério Público do TrabalhominorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2024Labor ministry partnership at Subprefeitura do Retiro since April 2023, having served 5,500 people through dedicated workspace.
• INSS (Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Social security partnership at Subprefeitura do Retiro facilitating 170 benefits in 2024 including urban/rural retirement, pension by death, disability assistance, salary-maternity, and benefit reviews.
• SINE/VR (Sistema Nacional de Emprego)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Employment service partnership at Subprefeitura do Retiro providing 680 unemployment registrations, 420 job placements, 118 company registrations, and 95 selective processes in first half of 2024.
• CSN (Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 26 January 2022Partnership with CSN for Jovem Aprendiz program providing 160 positions in 6 courses (mechanics, instrumentation, industrial processes, machining, administrative assistant, electrotechnics) through SENAI training.
• WHO/UNICEF/Ministry of HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHospital São João Batista received 'Hospital Amigo da Criança' (Baby-Friendly Hospital) certification in 2002 for complying with 10 steps for breastfeeding success defined by WHO, UNICEF, and Ministry of Health.
• Medical Education InstitutionscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHospitals serve as training grounds for university and technical students from medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, pedagogy, nutrition, and other health programs, maintaining agreements with regional educational institutions.
• Furnas/EletrobrascoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for dam safety and flood management. Volta Redonda participates in emergency simulation exercises and receives water level/volume protocols from upstream Furnas dam on Paraíba do Sul river.
• SENAI (Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTechnical training partner for Jovem Aprendiz program providing 6 courses (mechanics, instrumentation, industrial processes, machining, administrative, electrotechnics) through Sistema Firjan.
• Regional Municipalities (Pinheiral, Piraí)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHemonúcleo provides blood products to hospitals in neighboring municipalities including Hospital Municipal de Pinheiral and Hospital Municipal Flávio Leal (Piraí), extending healthcare reach.
• Private HospitalsminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorHemonúcleo supplies blood products to 3 private hospitals in Volta Redonda, extending service reach beyond public system.
• UGB (Centro Universitário Geraldo Di Biase)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUniversity partnership hosting Libras course ceremonies and providing educational facilities for municipal training programs.

Scale indicators19 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Regional players

• Prefeitura de Recife: Northeast Brazilian capital with comparable municipal-hospital scale and digital-service ambitions, useful for benchmarking how regional capitals operate digital tax/health stacks differently from Southeast industrial cities like Volta Redonda.
• Prefeitura de Porto Alegre: Southern Brazilian state capital operating comprehensive municipal services and a strong digital portal. Comparable in service-mix scope (health, education, tax, mobility) though operating in a different region and fiscal regime.
• Prefeitura de Salvador: Large Northeastern municipality with a deep municipal service portfolio and a Casa do Empreendedor-equivalent SME support network. Useful as a regional comparator for SME-support throughput and digital tax collection in a different state fiscal regime.

Broad incumbents

• Prefeitura de Belo Horizonte: Large Brazilian capital running municipal hospitals, UBS network, ISS digital and a strong Casa do Empreendedor-equivalent. Useful benchmark for SME-support throughput and health-network scale relevant to Volta Redonda's Casa do Empreendedor and dual-hospital model.
• Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro: State capital of Rio de Janeiro, a much larger but comparable municipal operator of digital services (IPTU carioca, ISS Digital, 1746 call center) and a broad public-health network. Same state tax-sharing regime as Volta Redonda.
• Prefeitura de São Paulo: Largest municipal operator in Brazil; runs a sophisticated digital services portal (SP Municipal, IPTU online, ISS), large public-health network, and Tarifa Zero-style transport programs. Reference for large-scale municipal digital delivery comparable in architecture to Portal VR.
• Prefeitura de Curitiba: Brazilian benchmark for municipal digital innovation and integrated urban mobility. Comparable because Curitiba pioneered many of the public-service and urban-tech models other cities now emulate, including the kind of integrated Portal + Saúde Digital stack Volta Redonda operates.

Direct peers

• Prefeitura de Florianópolis: Mid-sized capital city with comparable population scale (~500K) and a reputation for digital government and quality-of-life public services — a natural analogue for sizing Volta Redonda's digital-stack and SME-support throughput.
• Prefeitura de Campinas: Industrial-city municipality of similar scale and economic profile (industrial heritage + services), operating comparable municipal health, education and tax-collection systems. Highly relevant for benchmarking CSN-anchored industrial-city dynamics.
• Prefeitura de Niterói: Another medium-sized municipality in Rio de Janeiro state operating a comparable mix of digital services, public hospitals, education, and municipal utilities. Same fiscal and regulatory environment as Volta Redonda, making operational benchmarking directly relevant.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/PMVROficial
• Facebookfb.com/PrefeituraVR
• Instagraminstagram.com/prefeituravr
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/volta-redonda

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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