Allison Gaddy

Allison Gaddy serves as Principal Planner at the Lake Champlain/Lake George Regional Planning Board, where she leads technical planning initiatives that inform regional land use, transportation, and environmental infrastructure decisions. In her procurement role, she identifies and manages contract requirements for professional services essential to comprehensive planning, watershed analysis, and resilience planning. Her work directly supports the agency’s mission to empower local governments with data-driven tools and expert analysis, ensuring compliance with state and federal environmental standards. She typically handles service-based acquisitions requiring specialized technical expertise in planning, mapping, and design. Allison collaborates primarily with architectural and surveying firms that possess deep regional knowledge and experience in watershed-scale planning. She works with vendors who provide geospatial analysis, topographic surveying, and land use design services, often engaging consultants with prior experience in New York State environmental regulatory frameworks. Her procurement approach emphasizes long-term partnerships with firms that demonstrate technical proficiency, local presence, and a commitment to sustainable development practices. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently seeks vendors capable of delivering integrated, multidisciplinary solutions across planning disciplines. Allison’s contracting activity reflects a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions issued without set-aside designations. This indicates a focus on technical merit and capability over socioeconomic categorization, though she does not exclude small, minority, or veteran-owned firms from consideration. Her approach prioritizes qualifications and past performance over mandated set-asides, aligning with the agency’s need for highly specialized expertise in a niche geographic region with limited qualified providers. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541310 (Architectural Services) and 541370 (Surveying and Mapping Services), reflecting her emphasis on land use planning, spatial data collection, and infrastructure design. She procures services including comprehensive plan development, GIS-based watershed modeling, transportation accessibility studies, and environmental impact assessments. Her domain expertise centers on integrating ecological constraints with community growth objectives, ensuring that planning outcomes are both technically sound and regionally aligned.