Ontario County Industrial Development Agency

Ontario County Industrial Development Agency is a county-level community development corporation and airport authority based in Canandaigua, New York that acts as the prime federal grant recipient for airport infrastructure improvements funded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The organization operates exclusively as a grant recipient under FAA programs — it holds no federal contracts and no contract IDVs — and operates entirely within the set-aside or restricted-eligibility space: as a state and local government entity, it is ineligible for competitive full-and-open federal contracting but qualifies automatically as a recipient for infrastructure grants designated for public-use airports.

Ontario County Industrial Development Agency has received nine federal grants totaling $4.6 million obligated, all awarded by the FAA's Eastern Region under two primary grant programs: the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) and the Airport Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 20.117). Recent grant awards fund taxiway and apron pavement rehabilitation, weather observing system reconstruction, emergency generator acquisition, and runway-approach obstruction removal at Canandaigua Airport. Representative work includes a $816,347 formula grant awarded July 24, 2025 under the Airport Improvement Program to rehabilitate 8,200 square yards of main apron pavement (construction phase, completion scheduled July 23, 2029), a $305,342 project grant awarded July 21, 2025 to rehabilitate 1,030 feet of West Taxilane pavement (construction phase, completion July 20, 2029), and a $171,729 project grant awarded June 23, 2026 under the Airport Infrastructure Grants program to fund design-phase taxiway rehabilitation and relocation activities (completion June 22, 2030). An American Rescue Plan Act economic-relief grant awarded August 13, 2021 provided operational support during the COVID-19 pandemic response.

Customer concentration is complete: all seventeen awards and all obligated dollars come from a single funding agency, the FAA's Eastern Region. Award frequency has remained sparse and episodic — one to two grants per calendar year since 2022 — with three awards (representing construction and design phases of taxiway and apron work) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The organization functions as a pass-through administrative entity for federal airport infrastructure investment rather than as a contractor delivering services; it applies for grants on behalf of Canandaigua Airport, manages grant compliance and reporting, and oversees or coordinates execution of the infrastructure projects themselves (pavement rehabilitation, equipment installation, tree removal) by qualified contractors hired under airport procurement rules.