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Industry · Public & municipal sector
The Microsoft partner for Québec cities, RCMs and public bodies.
Cities, MRCs, ministries, state-owned corporations, tribunals. Mastery of Québec's public tenders and procurement cycles.
Data in Canada. Public tenders handled with confidence. Migrations with continuity of service.
10+
Municipal clients
SEAO
Tenders handled with confidence
What matters most in your industry.
An approach calibrated to the operational, budgetary and regulatory realities of your industry.
Book a meeting- Public tenders (SEAO, AENV-Q)
- Structured decision cycles
- Mandatory Law 25 compliance + Canada hosting
- Moving established systems to the cloud
Our services for your industry.
Law 25 compliance and Canada Central/East hosting
Azure and Microsoft 365 migrations
io4 SOC 24/7 + security audits for cyber-insurance
Multi-year bank of hours compatible with public cycles
Organizations in your sector that trust us.
Ville de Québec
Ville de Lévis
Ville de Gatineau
Similar references in your sector? We present them during the assessment.
Request references“The integration went smoothly and on schedule, thanks to constant support and rigorous, clean, careful work.”
Guylaine Gagner
Communications Coordinator
Ville de St-Lin-Laurentides
Why io4 for you
A partner who already knows your sector.
Mastery of Québec public tenders (SEAO, AENV-Q, Treasury Board general terms). Solid municipal and para-public references in Abitibi, Québec City, Montérégie and the Outaouais.
Yes. io4 is fluent in Québec public tenders published on SEAO and in the Conseil du trésor general conditions. Our clients include the cities of Québec, Lévis and Gatineau, and we offer a multi-year hours bank that fits public procurement cycles.
io4 for the public sectorBy default in Microsoft Azure's Canadian regions: Canada Central (Toronto) and Canada East (Québec City). It is a common requirement for public bodies and an important part of Law 25 compliance for citizens' personal information.
Step by step: inventory, migrate the least critical workloads first, a coexistence period, then cutover. On the cost side, a FinOps approach makes the Azure bill predictable: our article on municipalities describes a method that cut the Azure bill by 30% in six months.
Yes. Insurers increasingly require continuous monitoring, multifactor authentication and documented audits. io4 SOC provides 24/7 monitoring on Microsoft Defender XDR, and io4 performs the security audits that document these measures for the insurer.
See io4 SOC
Selected reading for your industry.
Our guides, case studies and articles on the challenges of your industry, written by the io4 team.
Guide pratique
Azure FinOps for Québec SMBs
A FinOps method for Azure environments running $5K to $50K a month: tagging, Reserved Instances, savings plans, rightsizing, budget alerts, governance.
Article · Public sector
Responding to a Microsoft public tender in Québec: the essentials for 2026
SEAO, Conseil du trésor general terms, Law 25 compliance, Canada Central hosting. The bare minimum you need to understand so you aren't disqualified the moment you submit.
Article · Cloud Azure
Azure FinOps for municipalities: -30% in 6 months, method and pitfalls
Reservations, autoscaling, governance, rightsizing. A field report on Azure optimization for Québec's public sector.
Article · Cybersecurity
SIEM for SMBs: why Microsoft Defender XDR is a game-changer in 2026
Traditional SIEM is still heavy and complex. Microsoft Defender XDR + io4 SOC gives Québec SMBs a credible alternative. Comparison, benefits, and a deployment method.
Article · Cybersecurity
Entra Connect Sync: without an upgrade, synchronization stops on April 7, 2027
Version 2.6.84.0 and application-based authentication required by April 7, 2027, or Entra Connect Sync stops. What to check, and when to move to Cloud Sync.
Where we support this sector
30 minutes to frame what matters.
A direct conversation with one of our experts: free, focused and practical. You leave with a clear, reasoned perspective on your situation.
