Communication Institute International, Inc.

Communication Institute International, Inc., doing business as CI International, Inc., a for-profit consulting firm headquartered in Littleton, Colorado, delivers leadership development, facilitation, organizational development, and executive coaching services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), the Professional Services Schedule (PSS), and several single-award Blanket Purchase Agreements. CI International competes full-and-open on most awards; a small fraction recur under total small business set-asides.

CI International's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in the civilian workforce-development and organizational-consulting space. The top five customer agencies account for 93% of combined potential value, anchored by the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service National Capital Region (149 awards, $836.8 million combined potential value), the GSA Federal Acquisition Service ($196.4 million across 42 awards), the GSA Office of Human Resources Management (68 awards, $83.3 million), the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Washington Office ($74.2 million across 84 awards), and the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Headquarters (52 awards, $27.5 million). The concentration reflects CI International's positioning as a bulk supplier of mid-level and senior leadership programs, facilitation services, and coaching to federal HR offices and agency leadership teams across the government. Work spans across 121 distinct customer agencies, but GSA dominates both award count and dollar value—PBS alone accounts for more than half the portfolio's potential value.

Capability framing is grounded in recent contract work. Representative recent awards include a $4.49 million delivery order from the Defense Human Resources Activity under the Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTS) multi-agency IDIQ for executive leadership development program design and delivery (Total Small Business set-aside, completion August 28, 2028); a $617,144.21 delivery order from a federal agency Acquisitions office for facilitation services supporting the National Leadership Council quarterly in-person meetings (Total Small Business set-aside, terminated February 12, 2025); a $514,554.64 delivery order from the USDA National Resources Conservation Service for facilitation, management, and consulting services (February 2025 completion); and recurring $130,000–$135,000 BPA calls from the Office of the Director for mid-level leadership programs across FY2023–FY2026. Most contract work runs firm fixed price, with task order ceilings ranging from sub-$10,000 training workshops to multi-million-dollar multi-year facilitation engagements. The portfolio encompasses strategic planning facilitation, team-building workshops, staff development programs, regional leadership team (RLT) and National Leadership Council (NLC) facilitation, executive coaching (both individual and cohort-based), customer service training, organizational change management support, and instructor-led professional development delivered in small cohorts.

CI International maintains active positions on two major GSA vehicles anchoring most transactional volume. The Professional Services Schedule (PSS) carries 1,189 task orders with $1.8 billion combined potential value—this is the engine of activity, fed by standing BPAs and single-award contracts with HRSA, the Office of Personnel Management, and the Western Area Power Administration. The Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) carries 239 task orders worth $78.5 million. A $50 million multiple-award Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) BPA awarded by the USDA Forest Service on June 9, 2025 (completion March 6, 2033, small business set-aside) represents a recent IDV win that includes project management, natural resources consulting, restoration, and data management—a broader scope than the historical leadership-and-facilitation footprint, signaling potential expansion into field services. CI International also holds a single-award $17.66 million Professional Coaching Services BPA with the Western Area Power Administration (completion March 20, 2025, no set-aside) and a single-award $7.5 million HRSA Coaching and Facilitation Services BPA designated as a total small business set-aside (completion April 9, 2028). These three parent vehicles—the PSS, MAS, and the HRSA and WAPA BPAs—represent CI International's core contracting architecture for bulk ordering across the federal civilian workforce.

Award volume has been stable year over year at 35–39 awards annually from 2022 through 2024, then dropped sharply to 3 awards in 2025 and 2 in 2026 through the snapshot date (September 30, 2026). This decline likely reflects a lag in reporting to the source database rather than a sudden collapse in activity, given the large standing IDV base and the recent LMIR award. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal: only 2 awards with combined potential value of $4.6 million reach ultimate completion before October 2026. However, the HRSA BPA ceiling reached April 9, 2028, and the WAPA BPA is terminating March 20, 2025—the latter is an immediate recompete risk if WAPA does not renew or extend.

On the Service Contract Inventory dataset, CI International reported $2.9 million in invoiced federal service-contract revenue as a prime across FY2022–FY2025, with deliveries averaging 1.0–1.3 FTEs per fiscal year (SCI captures only contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods, products, and classified work; this is a strict subset of federal services revenue and does not reflect total enterprise activity). Across the same window, CI International delivered an average 0% of hours through subcontractors on SCI-reportable prime contracts; all work was built in-house. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI prime records ranged from $257/hr at the tenth percentile to $476/hr at the ninety-eth percentile, with a median of $328/hr. CI International's GSA labor portfolio spans ten active categories priced from $28.21/hr (Administrative Support, bachelor's-degreed entry-level) to $387.71/hr (Nationally Recognized Expert, master's-degreed, 20+ years' experience). No roles carry security-clearance requirements; all are civilian-credential-based.

CI International operates as a pure prime on federal work: 100% of awards in the source data are prime contracts, IDVs, or grants. Four subcontract records appear in the source (Federal Management Partners, LLC; Team Carney, Inc.; Knowledgebank, Inc.) but account for a negligible fraction of the portfolio and represent support roles under larger OPM/GSA multi-agency initiatives rather than sustained teaming. The vendor builds its own delivery teams and does not position itself as a subcontractor feeder to larger systems integrators or defense primes.

CI International has been registered in SAM since 2001, signaling two-plus decades of federal contracting presence. The company competes predominantly full-and-open; small business set-asides appear on a minority of awards, mostly HCaTS delivery orders and the HRSA and Forest Service BPAs. The vendor's customer concentration and bulk ordering through standing GSA vehicles create a stable, high-volume, low-variance revenue model anchored in civilian HR, OPM, and agency leadership development—a defensible market segment with recurring demand, though exposure to recompete cliff risk on the two single-award BPAs (WAPA and HRSA) warrants monitoring.

Communication Institute International, Inc. is a small business specializing in leadership development, coaching, training, behavioral assessments, and professional consulting. Since 1996, our firm has delivered both off-the-shelf and customized learning solutions to nearly every Cabinet level Agency, as well as multiple independent government organizations, academic institutions, and private sector entities. Our approach of immersing ourselves in our clients' organizations and listening intently to gain a deeper understanding of their needs is a practice that started with CI's inception and continues today. We leverage the best technology for service delivery and have a reputation of creating sustainable change in individuals, teams, and entire organizations as demonstrated by the ongoing requests for our services. We are committed to creating sustainable work environments centered on diversity and inclusion. Our electronic content is 508 compliant.