SEA

What SEA does

SEA - Secretaria de Estado da Administração de Santa Catarina is a state government administrative secretariat of the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, founded on December 31, 1970 by Lei nº 4.547 and headquartered in Florianópolis. It is not a commercial entity but a public-sector body that coordinates four core administrative systems for the entire state executive branch: procurement and contracts management, people management, documentary management and official publication, and asset management. It also oversees occupational health services (DSAS), the public servants' health insurance plan (DPSS), and exercises supervisory authority over two pension entities (IPREV and SCPREV).

SEA operates a stack of integrated proprietary systems including SIGRH (HR), SIGEF (financial management), SIPAC (property/warehouse/contracts), SGPe (electronic protocol), Portal de Compras/E-Lic (electronic bidding), and the centralized Portal de Serviços SC, supported by the SC Fácil mobile application on Android and iOS. Underlying integrations include Power BI for process inventory dashboards, Google Analytics for citizen portal analytics, GOV.BR for LGPD data-subject requests, and ATOM (open-source) for the Public Archive catalog. SEA manages 4,000+ real estate properties, a fleet of 11,000 vehicles, 2,500 equipment items, 250 vessels, and 7 aircraft, plus a Public Archive holding 6 million pages of historical records. Its GTM is direct-to-government: service delivery to citizens, businesses, and public servants of Santa Catarina through digital portals, mobile apps, service counters, and a headquarters in the Centro Administrativo do Governo.

Name

SEA

Legal name

SEA - Secretaria de Estado da Administração de Santa Catarina

Website

https://sea.sc.gov.br

Company type

Public

Founded year

1970

Operating status

Operating

Short description

SEA is the State Administration Secretariat of Santa Catarina, Brazil, coordinating procurement, HR, patrimony, archives, and health services for the entire state executive branch and its citizens.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

State Public Administration Services

NAICS

Public Administration (92), Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (921), Other General Government Support (92119), Administration of Human Resource Programs (9231)

SIC

Non-Operating Establishments (9995)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industries

State/Provincial Human Services & Benefits Administration (Welfare, Disability, Child & Family) (BPAIABAI), Public Sector & Government ERP (HDAEAEAG), Government Program Administrative Services (Medicare/Medicaid ASO/TPA) (HLAEALAO)

Keywords

• Public administration services
• Government procurement systems
• Human resources management
• Public records archiving
• State asset management

Headquarters

HQ city

Florianópolis

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Government Budget Allocation: Funded through state government budget allocations and tax revenues. No commercial revenue generation as this is a government administrative department.
2. Public Services Administration: Manages administrative systems including procurement, personnel, document management, and property management for the state government

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

SEA coordinates four administrative systems for the State of Santa Catarina: (1) procurement and contracts management via Portal de Compras/E-Lic, (2) people management covering payroll, benefits, and HR for state employees via SIGRH, (3) documentary management and official publication including the Diário Oficial and the Public Archive (DIAP), and (4) asset/patrimony management (real estate, fleet, and equipment) via SIPAC/SIGEF/SGPe. It also oversees occupational health services (DSAS) and the state servants' health plan (DPSS), and supervises the pension entities IPREV and SCPREV.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SIGRH - Human Resources Management System

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Fundo para Reconstituição de Bens Lesados (FRBL) - Ministério Público de SCcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for digitization of part of the Public Archive collection. The Archive's consultation system is being implemented in partnership with FRBL.
• Instituto de Previdência do Estado de Santa Catarina (IPREV)coreOthersIPREV is supervised, coordinated, oriented, and audited by SEA. Responsible for administering pension benefits for state public servants.
• Fundação de Previdência Complementar do Estado de Santa Catarina (SCPREV)coreOthersClosed complementary pension entity supervised by SEA that administers supplementary pension plans for state employees.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• GovTech Singapore: Singapore's statutory board driving whole-of-government digital transformation, shared services, and citizen-facing platforms. Comparable to SEA in providing the central digital infrastructure for public administration at the national level, useful as a benchmark for modernization scope.
• MGI - Ministério da Gestão e Inovação (Brasil): Federal-level ministry overseeing public administration, HR, procurement, and digital government for the entire Brazilian federal executive. Functions as a broader incumbent that sets the regulatory and platform standards (GOV.BR, Compras.gov.br) to which state secretariats like SEA must align.
• Government Digital Service (UK): UK government unit responsible for the GOV.UK platform, identity assurance, and digital service standards across departments. A broader-incumbent international peer whose published Service Standard and platform-centric approach parallels SEA's digital-first posture.
• SERPRO - Serviço Federal de Processamento de Dados: Federal government IT services company that operates the GOV.BR digital identity platform — which SEA integrates with for LGPD data-subject requests — and runs major federal administrative systems. Acts as a broader incumbent provider whose standards shape SEA's system architecture choices.

Others

• ENAP - Escola Nacional de Administração Pública: Brazil's federal school of public administration, providing training, governance frameworks, and process-management methodologies consumed by state-level secretariats including SEA. Comparable as an adjacent/ecosystem participant in Brazilian public administration capability-building.

Direct peers

• SEAP - Secretaria de Estado da Administração e da Previdência do Paraná: Paraná's state-level administrative secretariat responsible for HR, procurement, and asset management for the state executive. Closely comparable to SEA-SC in scope (procurement, people management, patrimony) and in being a subnational government administrative body in Brazil.
• SAEB - Secretaria da Administração do Estado da Bahia: Bahia's state administration secretariat, with comparable scope over people management, procurement, and asset management for the state executive. A direct regional peer in Brazilian subnational public administration.
• SPGG - Secretaria de Planejamento, Governança e Gestão do Rio Grande do Sul: Rio Grande do Sul's secretariat consolidating planning, governance, and people/procurement management for the state executive — a direct structural peer to SEA-SC in mandate and in being a southern Brazilian state administrative body.
• SGGD - Secretaria de Gestão e Governo Digital de São Paulo: São Paulo's state secretariat for management and digital government, covering HR, procurement modernization, and digital service delivery for the largest Brazilian state. Operates the Poupatempo-style digital portals analogous to SEA's Portal de Serviços SC.

Emerging players

• PRODEB - Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação do Estado da Bahia: State-owned IT company of Bahia that develops and operates digital platforms for the state government, including HR and procurement-adjacent systems. An emerging/regional peer illustrating the alternative state-level IT-company model that could complement or compete with an in-house secretariat like SEA.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/GovSC
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@SEAGOVSC/videos
• Facebookfacebook.com/administracaosc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/administracaosc
• Instagraminstagram.com/administracao_sc/?hl=pt
• TikToktiktok.com/@governosc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Subsidiaries11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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