Cicatelli Associates, Inc.

Cicatelli Associates, Inc., doing business as CAI, is a New York-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing training, technical assistance, and capacity-building services to federal health agencies, state health departments, and community-based organizations as a prime grant recipient under federal grant programs. CAI operates as a health workforce and public health program-development organization with over 40 years of experience, competing for and holding prime grant awards rather than federal contracts.

CAI's customer base concentrates heavily within the Department of Health and Human Services. The top five customers by award count account for 65 percent of recent awards and span HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (12 awards), HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (8 awards), and HHS Health Resources and Services Administration (6 awards); the CDC and ASPH combined anchor the volume. The combined potential value across all awards stands at $600 thousand, though CAI reports $296 million in obligated dollars across its footprint, indicating substantial prior-year funding or a measurement artifact affecting the potential-value framing in the source.

CAI's primary grant work centers on HIV/AIDS prevention and care, behavioral health, sexually transmitted disease prevention, tobacco cessation in behavioral health settings, community health worker training, and pandemic infectious disease response. Recent representative awards include a $1.5 million HRSA HIV Emergency Relief Project Grant (CFDA 93.914) effective April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2027 for national training and technical assistance to Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program recipients in eight non-Ending the Epidemic states; a five-year CDC cooperative agreement for HIV prevention workforce training and technical assistance awarded August 30, 2024 with ultimate completion March 31, 2029; a $1 million SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Treatment project grant for a Center of Excellence for Protected Health Information Related to Behavioral Health (September 29, 2023 through September 28, 2026); a SAMHSA project grant for Center of Excellence for Tobacco-Free Recovery (September 30, 2023 through September 29, 2028); and a $1.436 million HHS Office of Adolescent Health cooperative agreement for the Hope Buffalo teen pregnancy prevention initiative in Buffalo, New York (July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2028). CAI also holds a $3 million Bureau of Health Professionals project grant for community health worker and health support worker training in low-income New York City neighborhoods, awarded September 15, 2022 with ultimate completion March 31, 2026.

Activity has been episodic over the past five years—one award in 2022, seven in 2023, two in 2024, five in 2025, and one in 2026—with five awards reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and facing recompete exposure. CAI holds federal grant sub-awards from the New Jersey Department of Health (trauma-informed care, HIV prevention services, overdose data-to-action technical assistance, and harm reduction organizational development) and Health Research, Inc. (rape prevention and education), dated between January 2023 and September 2025, positioning CAI as a sub-recipient on state-managed federal health initiatives. The vendor's footprint reflects a capacity-building and technical assistance organization embedded in the HHS grant ecosystem, with no federal contract prime awards or GWAC participation.