Alison Thomas

Alison Thomas serves as a procurement specialist within the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, where she manages civil works and environmental service contracts critical to the agency’s mission of ecosystem conservation and wildlife infrastructure resilience. Her role centers on acquiring technical services that support habitat restoration, wetland rehabilitation, and aquatic resource management, with a strong emphasis on land-based environmental remediation and public access infrastructure. She handles sole-source and competitive acquisitions under the Department’s strategic priorities, ensuring compliance with federal environmental statutes and state land-use regulations. Her procurements are instrumental in advancing long-term ecological sustainability through targeted contracting for field operations and monitoring services. Thomas maintains collaborative relationships with a broad network of environmental service providers, including specialized forestry support contractors, ecological consultants, and civil engineering firms experienced in natural resource restoration. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages vendors with proven expertise in native species habitat enhancement, erosion control, and invasive species management. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for firms with on-the-ground experience in Vermont’s unique ecosystems, fostering long-term partnerships built on technical proficiency and regulatory compliance. Thomas does not utilize any socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of her acquisitions awarded under open competition. This reflects a strategic decision to prioritize technical capability and geographic familiarity over socioeconomic criteria, ensuring that contract performance aligns with the precision and timeliness required for environmental restoration projects. While small business participation is not formally incentivized, her procurement process remains accessible to all qualified vendors meeting the technical specifications of complex ecological work. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 115310—Support Activities for Forestry—encompassing services such as forest inventory, trail and access path maintenance, stream bank stabilization, and wildlife corridor enhancement. She routinely procures specialized ecological monitoring, GIS-based habitat mapping, and invasive species control services, demonstrating deep domain expertise in terrestrial and riparian ecosystem management. Her work directly enables the Department’s mission to sustain native biodiversity through science-driven, contractually managed conservation actions.