UNSPSC 15101802: Ethanol

A type of fuel, ethyl alcohol, which is the same type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages. It can be used as a transport fuel, mainly as a biofuel additive to gasoline.

UNSPSC 15101802 Ethanol, a Commodity code, does not align with the recent state and local procurement activity tagged under it. The recent opportunities are primarily fuel supply and delivery services—including renewable diesel, compressed natural gas, hydrogen fueling infrastructure, and tank-wagon fuel distribution—rather than ethanol as a standalone product. One solicitation (Santa Monica renewable diesel, City of Santa Monica IFB 4511) specifies RD-99 fuel meeting CARB and ASTM standards, and another (Solano County IFB 405060226) procures renewable diesel alongside unleaded gasoline, but neither explicitly calls for ethanol procurement. The Berkshire Regional Group Purchasing Program cooperative bid (Massachusetts, FY2714151617) includes fuel products categories for gasoline, diesel, heating oil, and liquid propane, with no ethanol line item cited. The remaining opportunities focus on compressed natural gas, hydrogen infrastructure, RNG credit management, and general tankwagon delivery services across multiple state jurisdictions.

Recent solicitations suggest state and local governments are actively diversifying alternative and renewable fuel procurement—particularly renewable diesel, compressed natural gas, and hydrogen—but the available records show no explicit ethanol-specific demand under this code. Issuing bodies include fleet operations divisions (Solano County, California), state energy procurement offices (Washington State Department of Enterprise Services), regional transportation authorities (Orange County Transportation Authority, ABQ Ride in Albuquerque), state departments of transportation (South Dakota Office of Procurement Management, Illinois IDOT District 3), and multi-jurisdiction cooperative purchasing groups (Berkshire Regional in Massachusetts). Geographic activity centers on California (Solano County, Orange County, Santa Monica, Sacramento County), the Pacific Northwest (Washington State), the Southwest (Albuquerque), the Great Plains (South Dakota, Illinois), and New England (Massachusetts). Without explicit ethanol procurement records in the source, the code does not currently signal actionable pursuit opportunities for vendors in this product category.