UNSPSC 15121533: Oil Refined Rapeseed

A nondrying or semidrying oil obtained from rapeseed and turnip seed and used chiefly as a lubricant, illuminant, and food.

UNSPSC 15121533 Oil Refined Rapeseed is a Commodity code, but the recent state and local opportunities posted under it do not reflect refined rapeseed procurement. Instead, they reflect active buying of industrial lubricants, fleet maintenance oils, diesel fuel, and hydraulic fluids across school districts, county governments, state departments, and municipal fleet operations. State and local buyers are sourcing engine oils in multiple viscosities (5W-30, 15W-40, 0W-20), automatic transmission fluids, multi-purpose greases, gear oils, diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), anti-freeze coolants, and ultralow sulfur diesel fuel. These products support school bus fleets, municipal vehicles, heavy equipment, electrical substations, and facilities maintenance—not the specialty agricultural or chemical feedstock application the code's name suggests. The mismatch between code and actual recent solicitations signals either miscoding by issuing bodies or code-taxonomy drift over time.

Recent opportunities show solicitation activity concentrated among Florida school districts and county governments, with secondary activity in Texas, Georgia, and Washington state. Florida postings include Hillsborough County Public Schools (ITB 26205-ITB-DST for approximately 1.75 million gallons annually of No. 2 red dye diesel, estimated $5.5 million annual value, awarded July 2026), Pinellas County School District (ITB #26-AM-018 for petroleum lubricants and anti-freeze, approximately $135,000 annually, bids due August 26, 2026), and Collier County's single-source Notice of Intent to award Schaeffer Manufacturing Company a five-year contract for fleet maintenance oils and greases effective October 1, 2026. Washington State Department of Enterprise Services issued a reissued statewide solicitation (09225-02, bids due July 30, 2026) covering bulk engine lubricants, greases, gear oils, and DEF across four categories with approximately $5.1 million in historical annual sales. Outside Florida and Washington, recent solicitations span Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District (Texas, bid #MMTR0826 due August 6, 2026), Denton County (Texas, RFQ 26-2918 due June 8, 2026), and the City of Waycross (Georgia, requirements-based annual contract due June 4, 2026). Given the commodity code's stated scope, pursuit under this code is not supported by what state and local governments are actually buying.