NIGP 40518: Gasoline, Aviation (Including Jet Fuel)

NIGP 40518 Gasoline, Aviation (Including Jet Fuel), Item code, encompasses Jet-A turbine fuel, 100LL aviation gasoline, and related aviation fueling services that state and local governments procure for law enforcement helicopters, general aviation airports, educational aviation programs, and municipal air support operations. Recent opportunities show procurement bodies acquiring aviation fuel on indefinite-quantity contracts indexed to commodity benchmarks, with delivery and storage infrastructure managed by vendors or retained in-house. Representative recent solicitations include Texas State Technical College's RFP #62 for Jet-A and 100LL avgas at TSTC Waco Airport (response due November 16, 2026), the State of Maryland Department of General Services' IFB for Jet Fuel Type A to support Maryland State Police helicopters at Easton Airport (bids due September 17, 2026), the City of Tucson Police Department's RFP for bulk Jet-A delivery to support law enforcement aircraft (proposals due May 28, 2026), and Collier County Board of County Commissioners' RFP for aviation fuel and FBO services across three general aviation airports in southwest Florida (proposals due September 17, 2026). Issuing bodies include state aviation departments, counties managing public airports, municipalities operating police air support units, educational institutions with aviation programs, and airport authorities. Procurement bodies frequently structure awards as indefinite-quantity agreements with no guaranteed volumes, multi-year terms with one-year renewal options, and pricing mechanisms tied to published indices such as OPIS or NYMEX futures pricing with per-gallon markups or adjustments to account for market fluctuations.

Geographic activity concentrates in Texas, Florida, and Maryland, with additional recent solicitations from Arizona, Georgia, and Minnesota through cooperative purchasing vehicles. Texas opportunities include TSTC's procurement at Waco and Jefferson County's IFB for Jack Brooks Regional Airport (bids due October 7, 2026). Florida activity spans Hillsborough County Public Schools' diesel procurement (five-year contract with Colonial Oil Industries as incumbent), Collier County's three-airport portfolio, and Leesburg's request for bids on aviation fuel facility infrastructure (civil and utility work only, due August 4, 2026). Ventura County, California issued two separate RFPs for gasoline and diesel fuel supply on a scheduled and on-demand basis (RFP 6252 closed June 22, 2026 with historical annual spending of $4.6 million; RFP 6259 response due August 26, 2026). Sourcewell, a Minnesota local government cooperative, posted an RFP for fuel delivery with related services for its participating entities (response due September 17, 2026). Evaluation criteria across these procurements typically weight pricing at 35–50 points, supplier qualifications and quality assurance at 20–30 points, and operational approach or experience at 15–25 points. Collier County and Jefferson County explicitly encourage or welcome participation from disadvantaged business enterprises, minority- and women-owned vendors, and HUBZone firms, though such encouragements are not mandatory set-asides.