UNSPSC 15111500: Gaseous fuels

UNSPSC 15111500 Gaseous fuels is a Class code that captures propane supply and delivery services to state and local facilities, including bulk tank refills, bobtail (small-truck) deliveries, equipment installation and maintenance, and emergency on-call fueling. State and local procurement under this code centers on propane for school district heating and bus fleet operations, municipal public works (water treatment plants, fleet maintenance), state institutional facilities (correctional centers, supported living facilities), and transit authorities. School districts and county/municipal governments dominate recent activity; school districts appear in at least six recent solicitations, including Alpine School District (Utah), Cobb County and Paulding County School Districts (Georgia), Union County Board of Education (Georgia), Lauderdale County Board of Education (Mississippi), Madison County School District (Mississippi), and Tate County School District (Mississippi). State-level procurements also surface—South Dakota issued a statewide tankwagon and transport propane RFP covering eighty-four locations across multiple agencies, and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission solicited bulk propane delivery for San Angelo State Supported Living Center.

Activity spans the continental United States with recent concentration in the Southeast (Georgia, Mississippi), Midwest (Illinois, Utah, South Dakota), Northeast (Massachusetts, Massachusetts), Southwest (Texas, New Mexico), and West Coast (California). Scope varies from fixed-price per-gallon contracts with no quantity guarantees (on-call, as-needed delivery) to estimated annual consumption bands—Madison County School District and Central Consolidated School District (New Mexico) both solicited on an as-needed basis with optional multi-year renewals, while the State of South Dakota and City of Santa Monica specified estimated annual volumes (400,000-plus gallons statewide for South Dakota; 22,000 gallons annually for Santa Monica). Representative recent opportunities include the City of Austin IFB 7800 MAS1011 (HD-5 propane supply and cylinder refills with 5% local-vendor preference, response date October 20, 2026), Cherokee County Board of Commissioners RFP for propane fueling infrastructure design, supply, installation, and commissioning at a transit facility in Canton, Georgia (response date October 29, 2026), Central Consolidated School District RFP for propane services to fifteen facilities across the Navajo Reservation (response date October 6, 2026), and Alpine School District RFP for weekly propane delivery and tank services for school buses (response date June 19, 2026). Contract terms typically run one to five years with optional renewals; pricing models blend fixed monthly transportation charges with indexed fuel costs, fixed per-gallon markups, or unit pricing adjusted by published market indices (DTN, OPIS, Producer Price Index). Insurance, licensing, and bonding are standard requirements; some jurisdictions impose prevailing wage, local-vendor preference, or state resident-business preferences (New Mexico, California, Texas, Utah, Austin).