Wholesale Batteries, Inc.

Wholesale Batteries, Inc., a Kansas City, Kansas-based small business prime contractor, supplies rechargeable and nonrechargeable battery storage products to federal defense and civilian agencies predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides, with over 10,600 recent awards totaling $49.5 million in combined potential value. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation that has held continuous SAM registration since February 2002 and competes almost exclusively in small-business-reserved procurement, with 100% of recent awards as prime contracts and zero subcontract volume.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (DLA LM) accounts for 10,441 awards (97.6% of total award count) and $34.3 million in combined potential value (69% of total dollar value). The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration follows at 77 awards and $7.4 million, and the Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command at 49 awards and $5.2 million. All other federal customers fall far below these three anchors. The vendor's award profile is heavily skewed toward DLA LM's battery purchasing stream, which dominates both award frequency and dollar magnitude.

Wholesale Batteries operates under five primary Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA LM and related agencies. The largest vehicle, Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE7LX16D0140, has generated 2,407 task orders with $875 thousand in combined potential value. The second-largest, IDC SPE7LX19D5036, carries 1,501 task orders and $229 thousand. Three additional IDCs (SPE7L421D5013, SPE7L716D5022, and SPE7LX16D0067) round out the top vehicles with 1,061 combined task orders. These vehicles represent the vendor's primary access to federal procurement channels and reflect its core capability: on-demand battery supply to DLA's logistics network. Separately, the vendor holds a $1.5 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (awarded September 17, 2025, extending through September 16, 2030) for Uninterruptible Power Supply battery replacement across all six National Weather Service regions.

Capability footprint is narrow and concrete: the vendor supplies rechargeable batteries (10,575 awards under PSC code for batteries, rechargeable), nonrechargeable batteries (71 awards), and related power management hardware. The source identifies battery types from manufacturers including Yuasa, Enersys, and Power Sonic. Representative recent work includes a $133,130.92 delivery order from Naval Sea Systems Command on December 18, 2025, for Enersys X Cells, BC Cells, and Power Sonic cells; a $74,302 delivery order from NOAA on September 17, 2025, for UPS battery replacement at four Florida Weather Service locations; a $94,148 delivery order from NOAA on August 20, 2026, for batteries to multiple Western Region sites; and a $73,888 delivery order from NOAA on August 21, 2026, for UPS batteries at Anchorage and Juneau Weather Forecast Offices. DLA LM delivery orders typically range from sub-$100 values to $29,000, with firm-fixed-price terms and completion dates spanning four to six months.

Activity trajectory has contracted sharply: the vendor received 1,085 awards in 2022, declining to 962 in 2023, 359 in 2024, 381 in 2025, and only 46 in 2026 year-to-date (through September 17). This downward trend reflects either a shrinking vendor footprint on DLA LM purchasing or a shift in DLA's procurement patterns toward fewer, larger orders rather than the high-volume, low-value delivery-order pattern that dominated the vendor's portfolio in the early 2020s. Within the next twenty-four months, six awards with combined potential value of $296 thousand reach ultimate completion and face recompete exposure; the recompete cliff is modest relative to the vendor's total obligated and potential value.

The vendor's federal profile is monolithic: it operates as a small-business battery commodity supplier with little diversification beyond DLA LM's logistics stream. The NAICS concentration (10,094 of 10,692 awards under Storage Battery Manufacturing, 477 under Battery Manufacturing) and PSC concentration (10,575 awards under rechargeable batteries) confirm a single-product, single-customer posture. Wholesale Batteries Inc. holds no government-wide acquisition contracts, no GSA Schedules, and no positions on multi-agency IDIQs; it survives on DLA LM's Total Small Business set-aside vehicle portfolio and NOAA's single-award weather services contract. The vendor does not appear to subcontract to primes and does not engage in teaming.

FULL LINE BATTERY SUPPLIER INCLUDES:AUTOMOTIVE BATTERIES, MARINE BATTERIES, COMMERCIAL BATTERIES, UTILITY BATTERIES, GOLF CART BATTERIES, DEEP CYCLE BATTERIES, FLOOR SCRUBBER AND SWEEPER BATTERIES. TELECOMMUNICATION BATTERIES, UPS BATTERIES.