État de Vaud

What État de Vaud does

État de Vaud is the cantonal government of the Canton of Vaud, one of the 26 constituent cantons of the Swiss Confederation, founded in 1803 and headquartered in Lausanne. It exercises sovereign jurisdictional authority over its territory through a seven-member Council of State (executive), a 150-member Grand Conseil (legislative), and a cantonal judiciary, delivering public administration, public safety, education, healthcare, culture, economic development, and infrastructure services to individual citizens, businesses, communes, and associations. The canton is the third-largest Swiss economy by GDP, producing 71.4 billion CHF annually and hosting nearly 60,000 enterprises, with 147,000 jobs created since 1990.

The canton operates a multi-platform digital government ecosystem built around three primary portals: the public website vd.ch (TYPO3 CMS), the citizens' secure services portal prestations.vd.ch for digitized administrative procedures, and an internal IAM portal (portail.vd.ch) providing single sign-on to enterprise applications including ACTIS, EasyVista, LAGAPEO, LA PLACE, NEO, PAREO, RCPers, ReqDes, RDU, Themis, Votelec, and Wiki projets ACV. Supporting modules include Intercapi (land registry GIS), InfoSan (public health statistics), Connect (UNIL–museum collaboration), the MINT Vaud Salon (STEM outreach), six cantonal museums (MCAH, SMRA, Naturéum, MCBA, Photo Elysée, mudac), the EMCC crisis coordination center, and the SSCM civil security service (ISO 9001:2015 certified, ~100 collaborators, 9 apprentices). Communication runs through La Gazette, the Feuille des avis officiels (FAO), and active social channels.

Revenue is derived from cantonal taxation, federal transfers, and administrative fees; it is not commercially priced. Distribution reaches residents and businesses through the online portal, in-person administrative offices, and a network of communes. The canton's economic development policy (PADE), mobility law reforms (LMob), and digital infrastructure are anchored by institutional partnerships with UNIL, CFF, the Plateforme 10 Foundation, and population-protection agencies. Certification posture includes ISO 9001:2015 at SSCM and compliance with cantonal (LPrD) and revised federal (nDSG) data protection law.

Name

État de Vaud

Legal name

État de Vaud

Website

https://vd.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

1803

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

État de Vaud is the cantonal government of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, delivering public administration, public safety, healthcare, education, culture, and economic development services to residents, businesses, and communes through digital portals and a network of administrative offices.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Administration Services

NAICS

Public Administration (92), Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (921), Legislative Bodies (92112)

akta.pro primary industry

Government Digital Service & eGovernment (Service Delivery, IDs, Portals) (BPAIAAAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Revenue Systems, E-Filing & Digital Tax Administration (BPAIADAO), Land Administration & Cadastral Services (Public Land Records, Parcel Management) (BPAIANAH)

Keywords

• Public administration services
• Cantonal government services
• Administrative procedures
• E-government services
• Public sector services

Headquarters

HQ city

Lausanne

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Tax Revenue: Cantonal tax collection from individuals and businesses operating within the canton
2. Administrative Fees: Fees for various administrative services including permits, registrations, and official documents

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

État de Vaud is a Swiss cantonal government body delivering public administration services to residents, businesses, communes, and associations of the Canton of Vaud. Its core offering encompasses administrative procedures (tax declarations, permits, identity documents, business registrations), public safety and emergency coordination, economic development, cultural and museum services, official publications, and official gazettes. Services are delivered through the public web portal vd.ch, the secured transactions portal prestations.vd.ch, and in-person departmental offices across Lausanne and the wider canton.

Product overview

The Canton of Vaud operates a multi-platform digital government ecosystem organized around its primary public portal (vd.ch), a secured online services portal (prestations.vd.ch) for digitized administrative procedures, and an internal IAM portal (portail.vd.ch) connecting cantonal staff to enterprise applications. Supporting the core portals are thematic services: La Gazette and the Feuille des avis officiels (FAO) as official publications; Intercapi for land registry access; InfoSan for health statistics; Connect for university-museum collaboration; and the MINT Vaud outreach program. The cantonal government also directly operates 6 museums (MCAH, SMRA, Naturéum, MCBA, Photo Elysée, mudac), the EMCC crisis coordination center, and the SSCM civil security service. Together these form a platform-and-module architecture where the vd.ch portal acts as the unified front door, prestations.vd.ch handles authenticated citizen-facing transactions, and specialized thematic services serve distinct public and internal user groups.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Plateforme10: Cultural district in Lausanne housing MCBA, Photo Elysée, and mudac museums under public foundation governance.

Products and services

• Portail vd.ch (Official Canton Website)

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Université de Lausanne (UNIL)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Collaboration between cantonal museums and UNIL through framework convention signed in 2017. UNIL created Service Culture et Médiation scientifique (SCMS) in 2019 to pilot and coordinate collaborations. Partnership aims to consolidate and perpetuate museum-academic relations.
• CFF (Swiss Federal Railways)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership in emergency management exercises including TMD18 simulation of railway accident involving dangerous goods. CFF involved in crisis response coordination with cantonal emergency services.
• Protection Population PartnerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEMCC coordinates with police, firefighters, health services, civil protection, environmental agencies, and public/private organizations for emergency response and crisis management.
• Plateforme 10 FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFoundation of public law managing MCBA, Photo Elysée, and mudac museums located in the Quartier des arts Plateforme10 arts district. Placed under high supervision of Direction générale de la culture (DGC).

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Canton de Bâle-Ville: Urban, German-speaking canton with a similar compact administrative structure (Regierungsrat, Grosser Rat, courts) and a highly digitalised service portal. Peer for benchmarking citizen-facing digital services and life-sciences/health economic promotion, two domains where both cantons overlap.
• Canton de Berne: Bilingual canton with the largest surface area in Switzerland; runs the equivalent three-branch cantonal governance (executive, Grand Conseil, judiciary), an online service portal, and economic development programmes. Useful peer for Vaud because it spans both French- and German-speaking administrative practices.
• Ville de Lausanne: Municipal government of Vaud's capital city. Operates a similar digital service portal and service-delivery model (housing, culture, social services, mobility) inside the same labour market and demographic catchment. Functionally a sub-national peer whose performance directly shapes Vaud's citizen experience.
• Canton de Fribourg: Bilingual canton directly neighbouring Vaud, sharing border and labour-pool dynamics. Operates the same constitutional model (Conseil d'État, Grand Conseil, cantonal services portal), and competes for the same French-speaking enterprises and cross-border workers — the most direct regional comparator.
• Canton du Valais: French- and German-speaking Alpine canton adjacent to Vaud, operating the same three-branch public-law structure and an e-government portal. Comparable in digital public-service delivery and economic development policy mix (tourism a major pillar, akin to Vaud's PADE proximity-economy axis).
• Canton de Genève: Swiss French-speaking canton at the same constitutional level as Vaud, with broadly equivalent service portfolio (online prestations portal, e-tax filing, cantonal police, museums, economic development policy). Geneva is the closest functional analogue — French-speaking, internationally oriented, similarly sized economy — making the two the most directly comparable cantons.
• Canton de Neuchâtel: French-speaking canton neighbouring Vaud with a comparable constitutional and administrative architecture (Conseil d'État, Grand Conseil, e-government portal). Smaller in economic scale but matching in service mix (tax administration, civil security, museums, economic promotion), useful for benchmarking service digital maturity between similarly sized Romance-language cantons.
• Canton de Zurich: Largest Swiss canton by GDP and population. Operates an equivalent e-government architecture (zh.ch, Kanton-Zürich secure portal), runs cantonal economic development programmes and a public-law service delivery model that mirrors Vaud's, making it the structural upper-bound reference for Vaud's scale and digital maturity.

Regional players

• Canton de Lucerne: German-speaking central-Swiss canton with similar constitutional and service-delivery architecture. Regional rather than direct peer — serves a different linguistic territory — but useful comparison on economic development policy, museum governance and digital portal maturity from a German-speaking vantage point.

Broad incumbents

• Confédération suisse: Sovereign federal level that defines Vaud's constitutional framework, fiscal transfers, and policy ceiling. Operates the parallel admin.ch and ch.ch service portals. Not a direct competitor but the broader incumbent against which Vaud's autonomy in e-government, taxation and economic development must be measured.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Subsidiaries7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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