Battery Service Corporation

Battery Service Corporation, a for-profit small business headquartered in Bensenville, Illinois, supplies storage batteries, battery cells, chargers, and associated energy storage components to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor operating across two active Indefinite Delivery Contracts designated as total small business set-asides. The vendor competes exclusively under the total small business set-aside category and performs all work in-house at its Illinois facility without subcontractors.

Battery Service Corporation's federal footprint is hyperconcentrated on a single customer and narrow commodity. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime accounts for 15,326 of the vendor's 15,340 total awards—99.9 percent of volume—with $45.7 million in combined potential value across the portfolio. The remaining fourteen awards go to DLA Aviation for $91 thousand. The vendor's award velocity has decelerated sharply: 1,833 awards in 2022 falling to 756 in 2025 and 85 in 2026 year-to-date, signaling either saturation in available purchase requisitions under the parent vehicles or shifting sourcing patterns. The portfolio carries $45.8 million in combined potential value across all awards, with $14 million obligated (31 percent), indicating that most ceiling value across the contract vehicles remains available but unexercised.

Battery Service Corporation holds positions on five primary Indefinite Delivery Contracts, all with DLA Land and Maritime. The largest by task-order count, IDC SPE7L716D5017, carries 701 task orders with $139 thousand combined potential value; SPE7L719D5004 follows with 600 task orders and $213 thousand. The vendor also holds single-award IDC positions—including the May 2025 award (SPE7L121D5034) for battery chargers with a $250 thousand ceiling through May 2026. Work awarded under these vehicles runs almost entirely to rechargeable battery procurement (15,196 awards under PSC "Batteries, Rechargeable"), with minor exposure to nonrechargeable batteries (47 awards) and converters (61 awards). Recent representative awards include a $54.3 thousand total small business set-aside purchase order on January 9, 2026 for 47 battery units under National Stock Number 6140016281117 with expedited 10-day delivery timelines, and a $74.7 thousand delivery order on November 17, 2025 for general battery storage products. Individual purchase orders to DLA typically range from $1 thousand to $7 thousand, though larger individual awards such as the January 21, 2026 purchase order for $10.7 thousand and the November 17 delivery order at $74.7 thousand demonstrate capacity for consolidated requisitions.

The vendor is registered with the federal government since April 2001. The company's award concentration in battery commodities under DLA's Land and Maritime logistics procurement is exceptionally narrow—storage battery manufacturing (NAICS 335999 and related) accounts for 11,361 of the 15,340 awards. This specialization and sole-customer dependency create significant recompete and pipeline risk: the vendor has no diversified agency or commercial revenue stream to absorb a shift in DLA procurement strategy or consolidation of the five IDC vehicles under competing suppliers.

distributor of automotive, industrial, marine batteries