Northeast Battery & Alternator, LLC

Northeast Battery & Alternator, LLC, doing business as Northeast Battery & Alternator Inc., supplies commercial and industrial batteries and related products to federal agencies as a prime contractor, holding a General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule contract and competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements without small business set-asides on the Schedule itself, though ordering agencies have applied total small business set-asides to individual delivery orders.

Based in Auburn, Massachusetts, Northeast Battery & Alternator is a for-profit limited liability partnership that manufactures and distributes primary and rechargeable batteries across automotive, commercial, farm, marine, and stationary applications under primary NAICS 325910 (Primary Battery Manufacturing) and PSC 6350 (Batteries, Rechargeable and Nonrechargeable). The vendor's federal footprint consists entirely of prime awards (100% of recent activity), with no subcontract work. Recent awards span battery supply and installation work across multiple customer agencies: a $46,305 delivery order from the Department of Energy's Western Area Power Administration in September 2023 for flooded cell lead-acid batteries at Spencer substations in South Dakota; a $23,312.50 firm fixed-price purchase order from the U.S. Coast Guard in January 2024 for emergency light inverter batteries at Roland Hall in New London, Connecticut; and a $15,794.25 purchase order from the Federal Aviation Administration in September 2024 for replacement emergency lighting batteries at the Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center facility in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Customer concentration divides sharply between volume and dollar value. By award count, the Army Materiel Command Communications Electronics Command dominates with 12 awards and $18 thousand combined potential value, along with the Coast Guard (2 awards, $28 thousand) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (2 awards, $13 thousand). By potential value, the GSA Federal Acquisition Service anchors the portfolio with a single $500,000 multiple-award Federal Supply Schedule contract (47QSWA23D0009) awarded October 6, 2022, with performance through October 5, 2027. This Schedule covers over 335 part numbers and accounts for 80% of the vendor's combined potential value. The remaining 17% splits across the Department of Energy ($46 thousand), the Coast Guard ($28 thousand), and smaller orders from Army, FAA, and other agencies.

Total awards across the five-year window number 21, with combined potential value of $625 thousand and obligated value of $112 thousand (18% drawn). Activity has been sparse and flat — one award in 2022, one in 2023, two in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026 — with no recompete cliff in the near term. The vendor's strategy centers on leveraging the GSA Schedule to reach task-order demand from civilian agencies rather than pursuing direct prime contracts; the Schedule vehicle itself carries no set-aside designation, but delivery orders issued under it have been set-aside for total small business participation where agencies elected that restriction.

Wholesale distributor of lead-acid batteries