UNSPSC 15101701: #2 Heating fuel oil

UNSPSC 15101701 #2 Heating fuel oil (Commodity) covers the supply and delivery of ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) heating oil to school districts, county facilities, municipalities, and transit systems, with state and local buyers pricing delivery against daily OPIS or NYMEX benchmarks plus a fixed bid factor or markup. School districts and regional purchasing cooperatives dominate the issuing bodies, alongside county and municipal departments of public works, fire academies, and library systems; Baltimore City Public Schools, Barnstable County, and the Berkshire Regional Group Purchasing Program (acting for 32 Berkshire County municipalities) are representative recent buyers. Work entails scheduled and emergency fuel delivery to building oil storage tanks or fuel islands within specified timeframes—typically 48 hours for standard orders and 24 hours for emergencies—with bidders required to maintain minimum fleet size, provide 24/7 availability where specified, comply with ASTM sulfur and specification standards, and carry comprehensive insurance including general liability, automotive liability, and in some cases pollution legal liability and performance bonds. Delivery logistics vary by buyer; Baltimore City Public Schools requires FOB destination delivery to school sites with tank wagon capacity ranging from under 3,000 gallons to over 7,000 gallons, while Barnstable County coordinates delivery across ten service sections on Cape Cod municipalities and regional schools with estimated annual consumption ranging from zero to 28,000 gallons per location.

Recent activity clusters in Massachusetts and the Northeast, with secondary activity in California and Florida. Barnstable County posted IFB #8118 due May 12, 2026, for ULSD heating fuel delivery to county facilities and participating Cape Cod municipalities (response deadline passed); Baltimore City Public Schools posted IFB-26085 due June 2, 2026, for 500,000 gallons of #2 heating oil and 10,000 gallons of standard off-road diesel annually over a three-year term with optional two-year renewal; and the Capitol Region Purchasing Council posted solicitation 790FUELOILDIESEL on behalf of Connecticut municipalities and boards of education with a February 19, 2026 deadline (passed) for fiscal year 2026–27. The Berkshire Regional Group Purchasing Program included heating oil as category FY27-16 in a joint cooperative bid covering 32 municipalities with bids due April 17, 2026, at 1:00 p.m. (passed). Outside the Northeast, the Alameda County Water District's IFB 25/26-35 (due May 14, 2026) sought renewable diesel and Type 2-D diesel fuel but not heating oil, and the School District of Manatee County's ITB for fuel services emphasizes diesel and gasoline for buses and fleet vehicles rather than building heating oil, signaling that the commodity code captures heating oil procurement primarily in northern-tier jurisdictions with significant winter heating loads.