Allison Hopkins

Allison Hopkins serves as a key procurement lead within the Mount Ascutney Regional Commission, supporting the agency’s mission to enhance regional infrastructure resilience and public safety through strategic engineering and environmental planning. In this capacity, she manages the full lifecycle of acquisitions for civil works projects, including dam safety upgrades, fire station modernizations, and flood mitigation infrastructure. Her role is central to aligning contracting activities with the Commission’s long-term planning goals, ensuring compliance with state and federal standards while prioritizing technical excellence and climate-adaptive design. She typically handles sole-source and competitive sealed-bid procurements for professional engineering services, with a strong emphasis on performance-based contracting and deliverable-driven scope definitions. Hopkins works closely with a network of licensed civil, structural, and environmental engineering firms that specialize in public infrastructure remediation. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages firms with proven experience in Vermont’s unique geological and regulatory landscape, favoring those with demonstrated expertise in FEMA-compliant floodplain analysis, dam inspection protocols, and energy-efficient facility retrofits. Her procurement patterns reflect a preference for established technical partners with local knowledge, fostering long-term collaboration over transactional vendor relationships. Allison’s contracting approach reflects a 100% preference for open competition with no set-asides, indicating a focus on technical merit and qualifications over socioeconomic categorizations. She does not prioritize 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides, instead emphasizing competitive fairness and the selection of vendors based on demonstrated capability, past performance, and adherence to engineering best practices. Her procurement activity is exclusively focused on NAICS 541330—Engineering Services—with deep specialization in geotechnical analysis, hydraulic modeling, structural assessment, and climate-resilient design. She procures services related to infrastructure condition assessments, environmental impact studies, and engineering design for public safety facilities, ensuring all contracts are grounded in technical rigor and regulatory compliance.