Fuel Supply Government Tenders in United States

Index-linked pricing and the mechanics of a bulk fuel contract

Nobody bids a fixed price for fuel over a contract term, and a buyer who asks for one is inviting a risk premium rather than a price. These contracts are priced as a differential: a published market reference price for the product, plus or minus a bidder's margin covering supply, transport and service. Evaluation compares those differentials, not pump prices, and the tender specifies which published index is used, on what day it is read and how often it resets. A bidder who does not understand the index is not able to price the margin.

The specification is a product standard plus a delivery regime. Fuel is bought to a recognised national or international specification with seasonal grades where climate requires them, biofuel content stated, and certificates of quality accompanying each delivery. The service terms then decide who can compete: tank sizes and access at each site, minimum and maximum drop quantities, ordering lead time, out-of-hours and emergency delivery, and telemetry or automatic replenishment where the buyer has it. Sites that a large tanker cannot reach quietly exclude most bidders.

The obligations that sit around the fuel are where liability concentrates. Storage tanks, bunding, overfill protection and spill response are regulated, and the delivery driver's compliance with filling procedure is the buyer's environmental exposure as much as the supplier's. Metering accuracy and reconciliation between delivered and invoiced volumes are contractual, and stock loss is a recognised dispute. Where duty relief or a rebated grade applies to particular uses, eligibility and record-keeping transfer obligations to both parties that are worth confirming before the first delivery rather than at audit.

This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.

Who buys fuel supply in United States?

GlobalGov holds 7,899 fuel supply records from 295 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are GSA/FAS Furniture Systems MGT DIV (6,594 records); DLA Troop Support (87 records); W6QM MICC-Ft Drum (74 records); NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support (69 records); General Services Administration (68 records); DLA Troop Support (66 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 88% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.

What are fuel supply contracts worth in United States?

6,687 of the 7,899 records publish a contract value. The median is $500,000 and the largest single published value is $52.0B. By size, 51 under $100k, 4,221 between $100k and $1M, 1,669 between $1M and $10M, 746 above $10M. The remaining 1,212 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.

How long do bidders get to respond to fuel supply tenders in United States?

Across the 6,978 United States fuel supply notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 1 day. A quarter of them allowed 1 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 1. 6,394 of them (92%) closed within a fortnight of being published, so on this market a bidder who reviews notices once a week can lose most of the response window before reading one.

How often are fuel supply tenders published in United States?

United States publishes about 138 notices a month in this category, 1,658 in the last twelve months. That is 11% more than the 1,493 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 4,709, spread across 75 separate months of activity since 24 October 2016. May is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 15 May 2026, 139 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.

How does United States compare with other fuel supply markets?

Among the 34 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable fuel supply market, United States ranks 1st by number of records. No other country in the corpus publishes more of it. Within United States itself, fuel supply is the 3rd largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the United States fuel supply records on this page come from?

These 7,899 records are collected from 1 official source: SAM.gov (7,899). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.

Open Fuel Supply tenders in United States

Showing 10 of the 36 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the United States market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.

Other procurement categories in United States

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