UNSPSC 40101855: Vapor recovery unit

A Vapor Recovery Unit (VRU) is an engineered compression package, which aims to lower emissions levels coming from the vapors of gasoline or other fuels while recovering valuable hydrocarbons to be sold or reused as fuel onsite.

UNSPSC 40101855 Vapor recovery unit, a Commodity code, does not align with the recent state and local contract activity tagged to it. The code's nominal scope—vapor recovery equipment for fuel or chemical handling—appears in none of the seven recent opportunities posted under this code number. Instead, the recent solicitations cover water and wastewater instrumentation (pressure gauges, transmitters, atmospheric monitoring sensors), SCADA system upgrades, process control equipment from vendors such as Allen Bradley, Rockwell Automation, and Siemens, and a major mass-burn waste-to-energy facility design-build-operate-maintain (DDBOM) procurement. The issuing bodies are primarily Florida municipalities and counties—Tampa, Palm Beach County (Solid Waste Authority), Collier County, and Phoenix Water Services—along with the City of Gallup, New Mexico. These buyers are seeking replacements and upgrades for existing water, wastewater, and solid-waste infrastructure, not vapor recovery units. The mismatch between the code label and the actual procurement activity suggests either a data-tagging error in the state and local procurement systems or that this Commodity code has been repurposed or misapplied in recent cycles.

Because the recent opportunities do not support procurement activity actually aligned with vapor recovery equipment, this code shows little relevant market signal for vendors in the vapor recovery or fuel-handling instrumentation space. Firms pursuing water and wastewater instrumentation, SCADA modernization, or environmental monitoring contracts should monitor the issuing bodies directly—particularly the City of Tampa Water Department, which has posted multiple inventory and equipment solicitations since August 2026—but should not rely on UNSPSC 40101855 as a search filter. The code's activity does not reflect its commodity definition.