We design, build, host and secure the digital services of communes, intercommunalities and public bodies. Everything in-house, everything hosted in France and the European Union.
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Capabilities in-house
100%
Data hosted in the EU
99.9%
Uptime commitment
24/7
Availability monitoring
Most authorities end up with a design agency, a developer, a host and a security provider who each blame the other three. We do all four ourselves, and we sign for the result.
Design
Interfaces citizens actually use
Research, information architecture and interface design built around the people who will use the service, not around the org chart.
Development
Built to last a full mandate
Open technologies, an editorial back office your teams can actually run, and every regulatory publication requirement handled natively.
Hosting
Your data stays in France
Sovereign, managed hosting operated by our own infrastructure division. European jurisdiction, GDPR by design, no exposure to extraterritorial law.
Security
Hardened, watched, patched
Security is not a line item we add at the end. It is designed in, then maintained for as long as the site is live.
We are not reselling someone else's cloud. Garan Cloud Solutions, our own infrastructure division, operates the servers your site runs on. Data location, jurisdiction, backups and reversibility are contractual commitments, written into the contract you sign, not promises in a slide deck.
See our hosting commitmentsFrance & EU
Data location
European
Operator jurisdiction
GDPR
By design, not by patch
Reversible
Your code, your data
No exposure to extraterritorial law
No US parent company can be compelled to hand over your data
A public sector website is not just a website. It carries legal obligations that fall on you, the buyer, if the supplier ignores them. We treat them as part of the delivery.
Digital accessibility
Public sector websites must be accessible to people with disabilities. We build to RGAA 4.1 criteria, and the formal audit and statement are produced with a specialised accessibility partner.
GDPRPersonal data protection
Data minimisation, lawful basis, consent management and a processing register. Resident data stays in the European Union, under European law.
RGSGeneral security framework
Our hardening, authentication and logging practices follow the general security framework and ANSSI hygiene guidelines for public bodies.
OPEN DATAPublic data publication
Authorities above 3,500 inhabitants employing more than 50 staff must publish their public datasets. We wire the exports and the open data portal into the site itself.
OFFICIAL ACTSOnline legal publicity
Since July 2022, authorities of 3,500 inhabitants and above publish their administrative acts online rather than on a board. We ship a compliant register with dated, timestamped publication.
ECO-DESIGNSustainable digital services
Lightweight pages, optimised media and efficient hosting, in line with the general eco-design framework for digital services.
People do not visit a town hall website to admire it. They come to do one thing, and they should be able to do it in under a minute, on a phone, at 11pm.
Online procedures
Civil status requests, permits, declarations, connected to FranceConnect where relevant.
Council & official acts
Agendas, minutes, deliberations and decrees, published with the legal timestamp.
Alerts & notifications
Emergency alerts, works notices and closures pushed by email, SMS or web notification.
Bookings & registrations
School catering, extracurricular activities, room and equipment reservations.
Reporting tool
Residents report a pothole, a broken light or fly-tipping, with photo and geolocation.
Local directory
Associations, businesses, healthcare professionals and public facilities, searchable and mapped.
Agenda & news
Events, cultural programme and municipal news, with newsletter and social syndication.
Urban planning
Local plan documents, public inquiries and consultation files made findable and downloadable.
Procurement profile
Your own tender notices published and archived, linked to your buyer profile.
An indicative schedule for a commune website. We adjust it to your specification and to the pace your teams can actually sustain alongside their day job.
Framing
We read your specification line by line, interview your teams, audit the existing site and agree on scope, success criteria and the accessibility target.
Design
Information architecture, wireframes, then interface design and an accessible design system. Nothing goes to development before you have validated a working prototype.
Build
Development in two week increments with a staging environment you can review at any time. Content migration, integrations and editor training run in parallel.
Compliance
RGAA audit and remediation, GDPR review, security testing, performance tuning. You receive the accessibility statement and the compliance file before go-live.
Go-live
Planned switchover with redirects, monitoring and a support window. The previous site stays reachable until you confirm everything is in place.
Run
Hosting, security patching, monitoring, backups, evolution requests and a named contact. Monthly reporting, annual accessibility and security review.
Communes
From village to city, the institutional site and the online services residents expect.
Intercommunalities
Shared portals, pooled services and the territorial branding that holds them together.
Departments & regions
Large content estates, multi-site platforms and complex editorial governance.
Public bodies
Agencies, public establishments, syndicates and local public companies.
Where exactly is our data hosted?
In datacenters located in France and the European Union, operated by a European company. Nothing is stored, replicated or processed outside the EU, and no US parent company can be compelled to hand it over. The exact location is written into the contract.
Do you handle the accessibility obligations, or do we?
We do. The site is built to RGAA 4.1 criteria, then audited before go-live by a specialised accessibility firm we bring into the project, and we fix what the audit finds at our cost. You receive the accessibility statement and the multi-year improvement plan ready to publish, and your teams get training so new content stays accessible.
What happens to the site if we change supplier?
You get everything: source code, database, media library and documentation, in open formats. Reversibility is planned from the start of the contract, so a change of supplier is a migration, not a rebuild.
Can you respond to a formal procurement procedure?
Yes. We answer adapted procedures and formal ones, on the buyer profile platforms and the national notice service. Our bid file is ready, so a short response deadline is not a problem.
Can you take over an existing site rather than rebuild it?
Often, yes. We start with an audit covering accessibility, security, performance and the state of the codebase, then tell you honestly whether upgrading or rebuilding costs you less over the contract.
Who maintains the site once it is live?
We do, for the whole contract. Security patching, monitoring, backups, restore tests and evolution requests, with monthly reporting and a named contact who knows your project.
Garan Territoires
The person who signs the technical proposal is the person who runs your project.
Grégory Julien
CEO & Co-founder
Head of Garan Cloud Solutions
Grégory leads Garan Territoires directly. He also heads Garan Cloud Solutions, the group’s hosting division, which is the infrastructure your site will run on. In a procurement procedure he is the one who answers your questions, comes to the presentation and stays your contact once the site is live.
