Security Answers First
Vendors provide their hosting, certifications, integrations, and security information in writing. Your team can review the claims before deciding whether a call belongs on your calendar.
MUNICIPAL TECHNOLOGY DISCOVERY
Know the Market…Before Going to Market.
You don’t need to start procurement to start understanding the market. Explore technology options, compare vendor answers in writing against your own standards, and bring the right people in before anything kicks off.
- TRUSTED BY LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ACROSS BC AND ONTARIO
- FREE FOR MUNICIPALITIES
- DATA STORED IN CANADA
- ZERO PAY-TO-RANK
- VENDORS NEVER SEE YOUR CRITERIA
Public servants dedicate their careers to helping communities thrive. They deserve better tools to support the work they do, which is why PartnerAZ is 100% free for municipalities.
THE PUBLIC-SECTOR PROBLEM…
…It Starts Long Before Procurement.
- 01A department knows what’s hurting, but not what tools exist to fix it.
- 02The market moves faster than any team can reasonably track.
- 03Search favors the most visible vendors, not the strongest fits.
- 04Useful answers get buried beneath forms, calls, and polished marketing ploys.
- 05Security, privacy, accessibility, and integrations are discussed too late.
- 06Every stakeholder arrives with a conflicting fragment of the picture.
- 07Urgency ends the game before procurement even begins.
ONE DECISION. FOUR PERSPECTIVES.
Everyone Who Has to Say Yes
Municipal technology discovery isn’t one person’s problem. PartnerAZ ensures every stakeholder has the same vendor answers, so every team can focus on the ones that are relevant to them.
You’re pulled in before there’s anything to assess.
Anything touching the network needs your sign-off. Yet, departments love calling IT before anyone has checked the basics. PartnerAZ puts security, privacy, and integration answers in writing against your standards, giving your team a credible option instead of beginning the research for everyone else.
The People Who Will Use It Can Look First.
End users explore what could genuinely help, while department heads compare options and notes in their own time. They can shape the shortlist without pulling unrelated teams into weeks of meetings or committing the organization to anything.
Nothing Here Bypasses You.
PartnerAZ ends at vendor discovery, so your procurement process runs exactly as it does today. When you go to market, you already understand who and what is out there. The RFI, RFQ or RFP can evaluate the market instead of trying to discover it.
Every Score Survives Being Asked About.
However a vendor reaches you, their score carries the criteria and weights behind it. Your team can explain the shortlist line by line to an auditor, a council member, or the public.
HOW VENDOR DISCOVERY WORKS
Vendors apply to you, on your standards.
Set the Standard
Choose what matters, weight each criterion, and keep your scorecard private.
Let Any Vendor Answer
All vendors answer the same questions, without seeing your standards or who else applied.
See Who Fits.
PartnerAZ scores each application against your criteria and shows the reasoning behind every result.
Bring the Team In.
Share applications, add notes, and compare perspectives across IT, procurement, finance, and departments.
Meet (If You Want)
Book meetings with vendors who’ve earned a conversation with you. No broker, no pressure, no calendar ping-pong.
SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE
Built on AWS- Data stored in Canada
- Auth0Mandatory SSO
- Encrypted at rest and in transit
- SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliant infrastructure
EVERYONE YOU NEED, ZERO RUNAROUND
What’s in it For You
Every application, ready when you are.
Vendors apply to your organization. Keep, compare, and revisit answers later.
Scoring you can audit.
Set the questions and weights then see exactly why each vendor lands where they do.
One view for the whole team.
Bring IT, finance, procurement, and end users into one application.
A better path for cold emails.
Forward PartnerAZ any sales email. We direct vendors to your portal so you look without being sucked into a sales call.
Browse beyond familiar names.
Widen your view beyond the usual suspects. Invite relevant vendors to apply and give your team more options.
A direct entry point for vendors.
Share your unique code at events, in emails, or online. Applications land in your portal, ready when you are.
Rules you can’t bend, met before you start.
COMPLIANCE & FAIRNESS
Learn Without Opening a Process
Researching the market doesn’t issue an RFI or trigger procurement. Your standards and vendor discovery answers stay private until your municipality chooses the next formal step.
Answered once. Kept on file. Ordered by fit.
INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY
In a world where roles change, priorities move, and no one can recall which spreadsheet had useful notes or why a vendor made the shortlist, better organization is key. PartnerAZ keeps all answers, criteria, scores, and team notes with the application. When someone new picks up the thread, they won’t have to reopen 20 tabs or waste time on “research”.
Look all you like. Nobody comes knocking.
ASSESSING COSTS YOU NOTHING
No one knows.
No notifications, follow-up lists, or sales reps “circling back”.
Nothing starts without your say-so.
Browse, invite, and shortlist without opening procurement or making anything public.
YOUR STANDARDS. THEIR ANSWERS.
Vendor Discovery Without the Hounding
Bring your real technology need or start with sample data. We’ll show you how scoring works, answer your questions, and above all, we’ll leave the follow-up decisions where they belong. With you.
Municipal technology discovery is free on PartnerAZ.