Pickaway County Community Action Organization

Pickaway County Community Action Organization Inc., doing business as P I C C A, is a tax-exempt nonprofit community action agency based in Circleville, Ohio, that operates primarily as a federal grant recipient and subrecipient, with a smaller contracting footprint delivering transitional housing and support services to homeless veterans under a Veterans Affairs indefinite delivery contract. The organization has maintained federal contracting authority since 2004 and holds no set-aside designations, competing on full-and-open awards across multiple federal agencies and state-administered federal programs.

P I C C A's federal footprint splits nearly evenly between prime grants and sub-awards (47% prime, 53% sub) across 173 total awards since 2003, with combined potential value of $8.6 million but combined obligated dollars of $105.9 million, indicating substantial multi-year grant execution. The organization's primary contracting relationship centers on a $2.764 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 established April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2028, for low-demand transitional housing beds serving single and family homeless veterans in Circleville. Recent delivery orders under this IDC include $288,848 for transitional housing (awarded April 1, 2026, completion March 31, 2027), $174,315 (April 1, 2025, completion March 31, 2026), $209,492 (April 1, 2024, completion March 31, 2025), and $161,875 (April 1, 2023, completion March 31, 2024), plus prior delivery orders for the Chillicothe Health Care for Homeless Veterans Program valued at $63,050 and $103,298.

On the grant side, P I C C A is a prime recipient under the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Preservation Grants program (CFDA 10.433), receiving three consecutive annual awards of $113,300 each (obligated August 2023, October 2025, and October 2026, with respective completion dates October 2024, July 2026, and July 2027) to deliver housing repair and rehabilitation assistance to very low- and low-income rural residents in Ohio. The organization also holds a Head Start and Early Head Start prime grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Head Start (awarded January 1, 2025, through December 31, 2029) and received VA per diem grant funding for transitional housing operational costs (August 2023, completion September 2025).

Customer concentration is substantial. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 accounts for 35 awards and $8.5 million in combined potential value, while the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families leads by award count with 47 awards, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, the Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service Single Family Housing Program, and the Department of Energy round out the top five. Together these five agencies account for approximately 64% of awards and 99% of combined potential value. P I C C A also functions as a subrecipient on extensive state-administered federal assistance programs flowing through the Ohio Department of Development, Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, and Ohio Department of Education, delivering Community Services Block Grants, Home Energy Assistance Program funding, Weatherization Assistance Program support, Child Care Food Program administration, and transit mobility-management services.

Activity peaked in 2023 with 42 awards, then declined to 18 in 2024 and 9 in 2025; 2026 shows six awards to date. Only three awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $289 thousand), indicating limited near-term recompete exposure in the primary contract vehicle. Work is performed in Circleville, Ohio, with administrative oversight and service delivery rooted in Pickaway County and surrounding rural Ohio communities. P I C C A's capability portfolio centers on homeless services and transitional housing operations, housing rehabilitation and preservation assistance, early childhood education and care, energy assistance and weatherization, and community services delivery to very low- and low-income populations in rural regions.