Alpine Power Systems Inc.

Alpine Power Systems Inc., doing business as Alpine Battery Co., is a Michigan-based small business that manufactures and supplies batteries, uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and backup power infrastructure to federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards), competing predominantly in full-and-open and total small business set-aside categories across the federal marketplace.

Alpine Power Systems competes across a highly fragmented federal customer base spanning 104 distinct agencies, with no single customer dominating the footprint. The top five customers by award count—Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (35 awards, $137 thousand), Department of Energy Western Area Power Administration (19 awards, $1.4 million), Bureau of Reclamation (14 awards, $428 thousand), Veterans Integrated Service Network 8 (14 awards, $382 thousand), and Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 (11 awards, $181 thousand)—account for only 30% of total awards. When ranked by dollar value, the picture shifts slightly toward larger programs: WAPA leads at $1.4 million across 19 awards, followed by Bureau of Reclamation ($428 thousand), VISN 8 ($382 thousand), Defense Health Agency ($359 thousand), and Marine Corps ($251 thousand), together representing only 15% of combined potential value. This extreme fragmentation reflects Alpine's core business model: it wins numerous small purchase orders for battery replacement, battery maintenance services, UPS system installation, and battery load testing across federal facilities and installations, rather than anchoring work to a handful of large contracts.

The work itself is concrete and commodity-focused. Representative recent prime awards include a $243 thousand total small business purchase order from Federal Bureau of Prisons (April 2026) for eleven battery inverters to support emergency backup lighting at Federal Correctional Complex Victorville, California; a $169,749 total small business purchase order from Department of Energy Western Area Power Administration (August 2024) for removal, recycling, and installation of new battery banks at three substation locations in California; a $154,649 delivery order from Defense Threat Reduction Agency (June 2024) for universal power supply batteries under GSA Multiple Award Schedule; a $133,750 purchase order from Defense Health Agency (August 2023) for magnetic resonance imaging equipment batteries; and a $446,773 total small business purchase order from WAPA (August 2021) for UPS battery replacement. The portfolio centers on PSC codes for rechargeable batteries (129 awards), nonrechargeable batteries (35 awards), and miscellaneous electric power distribution equipment (14 awards), with NAICS distributed across miscellaneous electrical equipment manufacturing (165 awards), storage battery manufacturing (52 awards), and battery manufacturing (31 awards).

Alpine Power Systems operates primarily through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, which anchors 150 task orders carrying $4.6 million in combined potential value. The vendor also holds a Blanket Purchase Agreement with the U.S. Marshals Service Tactical Operations Division for uninterruptible power supplies and replacement battery kits and appears on SeaPort Next Generation. Activity has declined year over year—24 awards in 2022, 23 in 2023, 17 in 2024, 8 in 2025, and 3 in the first half of 2026—indicating a shrinking award pipeline. Only two awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $173 thousand), creating minimal recompete exposure near term. The vendor's subcontract footprint is negligible: two sub-awards identified in recent data, one to HII Mission Technologies Corp (June 2025) for battery systems and one to Amentum Services, Inc. (May 2025) for battery system maintenance and operation services at the Atlantic Undersea Test & Evaluation Center, positioning Alpine as overwhelmingly a prime contractor rather than a consistent subcontractor.

Alpine Power Systems competes entirely in full-and-open and total small business categories; no 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, or other preferential set-aside designation appears in the award record. The vendor's small business status itself is the primary vehicle for set-aside eligibility, which recurs across approximately 40% of recent awards. Combined potential value across all awards sits at $18.6 million, with $8.6 million (46%) obligated to date, reflecting the high proportion of unfilled or partially filled purchase orders typical of small distributed battery orders.