We have been shortlisted for MSP of the Year (under £10m) at the CRN Channel Awards 2026, one of the UK IT industry’s biggest and most respected awards. We join a shortlist of leading managed service providers from across the country, with the winners to be announced at a ceremony in London this November.
What the Award Recognises
The CRN Channel Awards are run by CRN UK, part of The Channel Company, and celebrate the best-performing businesses across the UK technology channel. The MSP of the Year (under £10m) category specifically recognises managed service providers that have shown strong growth, genuine client satisfaction, technical excellence and innovation over the past year, judged against other MSPs of a similar size from right across the country.
Winners are announced live at the awards ceremony on 12 November 2026 at Battersea Evolution, London. The full list of 2026 finalists, including us, can be viewed on the CRN Channel Awards site.
Why the Shortlisting Matters
Focus Technology Solutions was built on 25 years of lessons about what good IT Support looks like and what happens when it goes wrong. The company’s chairman spent two decades at a family-owned Cheshire MSP with 25 years of history behind it before it was bought by a private equity-backed consolidator and saw first-hand both what good looked like over a quarter of a century and what can happen to a business’s culture and its clients when outside investment and rapid scale take over. Four members of the current Focus team came from that same company.
Focus Technology Solutions was founded to take that experience and build something different: a business that always majors on fast, friendly and stress-free IT Support no matter how much it grows. This nomination highlights our commitment to excellent IT support as recognised by a top industry award organisation.
Dave Wilkinson, Managing Director of Focus Technology Solutions, commented:
“Being shortlisted for a national award like this means a huge amount to the whole team. We started Focus to build a business that always majors on family feeling and personal touch, the kind of IT Support that big companies rarely offer, so to be recognised alongside some of the best MSPs in the country is brilliant. It’s a testament to the hard work everyone here puts in for our clients every single day.”
What This Means for Focus Clients
We provide Managed IT Support and Cyber security services to small and medium-sized businesses across Merseyside and Lancashire, including Liverpool, Wigan, Knowsley and St Helens, from our Skelmersdale head office. We are Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certified and Microsoft Certified, support over 65 businesses, and report a 98% client satisfaction score with 80% of issues resolved on the first call. New clients are onboarded through our Safe Launch process, a structured, no-disruption transition designed to remove the disruption typically associated with switching IT providers.
This recognition reflects the standards Focus Technology Solutions holds ourselves to on behalf of every client we support.
What Happens Next
Winners will be announced live at the CRN Channel Awards ceremony on 12 November 2026.
Businesses across Merseyside and Lancashire looking to find out more about Focus Technology Solutions can get in touch with the team or read client stories on the website.