APPROVED OIL CO. OF BROOKLYN, INC.
Lobbying client
Approved Oil Co. of Brooklyn, Inc. is a family-owned fuel oil distributor, founded in 1932 and based in Bay Ridge, that supplies heating oil and renewable diesel to residential, commercial, and city customers across the five boroughs. THE CITY reported in 2024 that it holds a $91 million, non-competitively awarded city contract to supply renewable diesel to municipal fleets including Sanitation, NYPD, and FDNY. It filed 18 lobbying disclosures since 2024, registered citywide across all 51 council districts through Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno and Tusk Strategies, on contract-payment issues.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 18
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $245,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Goods
- City contracts (active)
- $88,447,487 · 8 contracts
- Awarded all-time
- $247,983,605 · 32 since 2020, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $228,161,794
- Won without a fresh bid
- 2% of contract value · $5,288,581 · 10 contracts
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno LLC Lobbyist firm
- Tusk Strategies LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service City agency
- Department of Homeless Services City agency
- Housing Preservation and Development City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Housing Preservation and Development City agency
- Police Department City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - oil and energy solutions
- Procurement - Contract Resolution.
- Procurement - Contract payments.
- Procurement - Issues related to contract payments
City contracts
Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).
- The NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services is se DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service · MA185720278800840 $66,867,092
- The purpose of this contract is to procure #2 and #4 oil ble DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service · MA185720258800919 $15,051,095
- Gas-Fired Htg Plants - BQS Housing Preservation and Development · CT180620258803349 $2,500,000
- On-Call Rental of Temporary Mobile Boiler Units, Citywide Department of Homeless Services · CT107120248806005 $1,829,300
- 80622B0113-Oil-Fired - Brooklyn, Queens & Staten Island Housing Preservation and Development · CT180620268803424 $1,100,000
- Installation & Repair of Gas-Fired Heating Plants - MX Housing Preservation and Development · CT180620258801342 $900,000
- Provide & Install Mobile Steam Unit- P: BX, S: MN Housing Preservation and Development · CT180620261402973 $100,000
- KP01366 - Provide & Install Mobile Steam Unit Housing Preservation and Development · CT180620261402731 $100,000
- The NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services is se DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service · MA185720248801663 · ended 2025 $91,518,000
- The NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services is se DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service · MA185720268800743 · ended 2026 $46,518,000
Largest payments, by purpose
The organization's largest individual city payments (roughly $25,000 and up), grouped by purpose, to show what recent money was for. This is NOT a total — smaller payments aren't listed; see “Paid to date” above for the complete amount paid against its contracts. Fiscal years 2020 and later.
- Gas-Fired Htg Plants - BQS Housing Preservation and Development · FY2026 · 10 payments $411,370
- 80622B0113-Oil-Fired - Brooklyn, Queens & Staten Island Housing Preservation and Development · FY2026 · 6 payments $256,860
- Gas-Fired Htg Plants - Inst, Rpr - MX Housing Preservation and Development · FY2024 · 4 payments $189,325
- Emerg Boiler Repl - 161 W 140 St MN Housing Preservation and Development · FY2024 $185,500
- To provide gas-fired heating plants services to buildings BQ Housing Preservation and Development · FY2025 · 4 payments $117,395
- Gas-Fired Htg Plants - BQS Housing Preservation and Development · FY2025 · 3 payments $107,140
- Gas-Fired Htg Plants - Inst, Rpr - MX Housing Preservation and Development · FY2025 · 2 payments $99,590
- Emerg Oil-Fired Boiler Installation & Repair - BQS Housing Preservation and Development · FY2024 · 3 payments $93,735
- Emerg Boiler Repl 79 Post Av MN Housing Preservation and Development · FY2024 $82,785
- Installation & Repair of Gas-Fired Heating Plants - MX Housing Preservation and Development · FY2026 · 2 payments $80,390
- To provide gas-fired heating plants services to buildings BQ Housing Preservation and Development · FY2024 · 2 payments $69,249
- Emerg Oil-Fired Boiler Installation & Repair - BQS Housing Preservation and Development · FY2025 · 2 payments $67,800
- Emerg Boiler Repl 15 Strong Pl BK Housing Preservation and Development · FY2024 $64,500
- mobile units Police Department · FY2024 $61,133
- Emergency Heat Work - 1055 Bergen St BK Housing Preservation and Development · FY2023 $55,500
- Emerg Chimney Repl - 503 W 147th St MN Housing Preservation and Development · FY2026 $55,200
- Gas-Fired Htg Plants - Inst, Rpr - MX Housing Preservation and Development · FY2026 $35,400
- Installation & Repair of Gas-Fired Heating Plants - MX Housing Preservation and Development · FY2025 $29,299
Federal awards
Federal awards made directly to this organization in fiscal years 2023 through 2026. Each amount is what the federal government has OBLIGATED on that award as recorded on USAspending.gov as of 2026-08-31 — money committed, not money paid out. These are prime awards only: federal money this
- Department of Justice FUEL OILS · Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Contract $10,070
- Department of Veterans Affairs LIQUID PROPELLANTS AND FUELS, PETROLEUM BASE · Department of Veterans Affairs · Contract $828