Varta Microbattery, Inc.

Varta Microbattery, Inc., doing business as Varta Microbatteries Inc., is a foreign-owned small business headquartered in Golden, Colorado that manufactures and supplies specialized microbatteries to the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor, operating exclusively in the full-and-open market without set-aside designations. The vendor competes and performs entirely as a prime (100% of recent awards), with no subcontractor footprint, and serves a single dominant customer: the VA's Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 19 (VISN 19), which accounts for 340 of 493 total awards and $154.2 million of $159.9 million in combined potential value across all federal work.

Varta Microbattery's capability portfolio centers on production and delivery of hearing-aid batteries, cochlear-implant batteries, alkaline batteries, lithium batteries, NiMH batteries, and zinc-air batteries for medical devices, along with battery analyses and express reporting services. Representative recent delivery orders include a $239,715 firm fixed-price order from VISN 19 issued October 1, 2025 (ultimate completion October 31, 2025), a $472,491 firm fixed-price order awarded May 1, 2025, and an $18,095.40 firm fixed-price order from October 2023. Performance occurs entirely at the vendor's Golden, Colorado facility.

Customer concentration is extreme and narrow. VISN 19, which encompasses Colorado, New Mexico, and parts of Texas, represents 69% of all awards (340) and 96% of combined potential value ($154.2 million) in the source data. The vendor has served only two distinct federal agencies in recent years — VISN 19 and the broader Department of Veterans Affairs, with the latter accounting for one award only. This single-customer dependency creates both stability and recompete exposure: the vendor's entire federal footprint flows through VISN 19 healthcare procurement.

Varta Microbattery holds positions on five active VA indefinite delivery contracts. The largest vehicle is IDC VA791P0097, which has generated 235 task orders valued at $27.9 million in combined potential value. Four additional IDCs — V791P0313 (97 task orders, $2.3 million), 36C79120D0016 (46 task orders, $852 thousand), VA79115D0028 (45 task orders, $28.1 million), and VA791P0034 (30 task orders, $279 thousand) — round out the parent-vehicle portfolio. In September 2025, the VA awarded Varta Microbattery a new single-award indefinite delivery contract valued at $16.72 million running through August 31, 2030, specifically for batteries and battery-related services to support VHA healthcare operations, with work performed at the VA's Denver Logistics Service facility.

Activity has remained flat across the past five years, averaging nine to ten awards annually (2021–2025). Award volumes and dollar concentrations are driven by the rhythm of monthly or quarterly delivery orders against standing IDC vehicles rather than episodic competitive procurements. The vendor faces material recompete exposure on its legacy IDC positions, particularly VA791P0097 and VA79115D0028, which together carry over $56 million in combined potential value and support the bulk of VISN 19 battery procurement.

Varta Microbattery operates as a specialized single-commodity supplier with no identified subcontractors and no cross-agency diversification. The primary NAICS framing is 325911 (Primary Battery Manufacturing), with secondary coding in 339113 (Surgical Instruments and Supplies Manufacturing), and procurement activity clusters under PSC codes for nonrechargeable batteries (217 awards) and medical and surgical instruments and equipment (260 awards). The vendor's footprint is narrow by design: a reliable, focused microbattery supplier to a single VA region with long-standing IDC relationships, no pursuit of new customer agencies, and no teaming or sub relationships visible in the source data.