For the public sector
Know the market before you go to market.
Learn what exists and how it measures up against your standards, in writing, before you issue anything.
- Free for municipalities
- Data stored in Canada
- No pay-to-rank
- Vendors never see your criteria
Public servants dedicate their careers to helping communities thrive. We think that work deserves better tools, so we made PartnerAZ free for every municipality.
The problem
Who it is for
Everyone who has to say yes.
A municipal decision is never one person's. Each of these four blocks it for a different reason.
You get pulled in before there is anything to assess.
Anything touching the network needs you, so every department that wants a tool has to bring you in, usually before anyone has checked it. Here the security and integration questions are already answered in writing, against your bar. You join a decision that has been screened, instead of starting the screening.
See it with your own standards in it.
How it works
Vendors apply to you, on your standards.
You set your standards.
Whatever matters most to your team, weighted your way. Never published.
Any vendor can apply.
They answer the same questions blind, without seeing your standards or who else applied.
You see who actually fits.
Every score comes with the reason behind it, and stays private to your team.
Your team weighs in.
Share applications internally and compare notes across departments.
Book the meeting.
Book directly with whoever earned it. No back and forth.
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
What you get
Everything you needed.
A directory of every application, on file.
Vendors apply to you. Keep them, compare them, and assess them whenever you are ready.
Scoring you can audit.
Think of it as an exam rubric. Same questions, your weights, one score per criterion. Run it for a department or a single project.
Collaborate as a team.
Pull in IT, finance, and the people who will use it. Everyone reads the same application and leaves notes in one place.
Forward any cold email.
Send it to a PartnerAZ inbox, we direct the vendor to your portal without you engaging or typing a word.
Browse vendors in the marketplace.
Need options? Browse the marketplace and request vendors to apply to your portal, so you can assess them against your standards.
A code for every member.
Met someone at a conference? Give them your code. Their application lands with you, on file until you want it.
Compliance and fairness
Rules you cannot bend, met before you start.
Fair by construction
Every vendor answers the same questions and none of them sees your standards. The field is formed on the same terms for everyone, so how it was assembled holds up if anyone asks.
Security answered up front
Certifications, hosting and integration are on file before a meeting exists. Your team reviews them against your own bar instead of taking a claim on a call.
No process opened
Learning what exists used to mean issuing an RFI and reading whatever came back. Your standards are met here without a solicitation, so nothing is committed and nothing is public.
The result
One place. The whole team.
No more chasing files.
One page replaces the pile, and your whole team works from it.
Everyone can look, not just IT.
Department heads and the people who will actually use the tool see what is out there, without waiting on procurement.
Why this matters in the public sectorAnswers come from the vendor.
No decoding marketing sites or AI summaries. They answer your questions directly.
A ranking you can trust.
Paying puts a vendor in the pool. Your weights alone decide the order.
Solution profile
Answered once. Kept on file. Ordered by fit.
Everything a first call would cover, answered in writing before any procurement starts, and kept on file for whenever your team is ready to look.
Why should we care?
Privacy
Assessing costs you nothing.
No vendor sees your criteria.
They answer without ever knowing the bar, or who is asking.
No vendor is told you looked.
No notification, no follow-up list, no sudden interest from a rep.
Nothing initiates a procurement.
Looking, inviting a vendor to apply, and building a shortlist all happen outside your formal process. It starts when you start it.
Where we stand
We end where procurement begins.
PartnerAZ Pre-discovery
We are hereYour procurement process stays the same. Our job concludes at discovery. Our mission is for you to have the right context in the room when you need it.
Assess vendors without getting hounded.
Walk through the buyer side with sample data first. Free for municipalities, and nobody calls you unless you ask.