UNSPSC 71121210: Motor coring services

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UNSPSC 71121210 Motor coring services is a Commodity code encompassing well abandonment, plugging, remediation, and site restoration services that state and local water utilities, environmental agencies, and petroleum regulatory boards procure to decommission orphaned or end-of-life wells. Recent solicitations show state environmental departments and county water authorities issuing direct solicitations, ITBs, and RFPs for comprehensive well-plugging packages that include drilling rig services, casing and tubing removal, cement plugging, site preparation and restoration, and equipment disposal—often with Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements when federal funds underwrite the work. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has dominated recent activity with four major direct solicitations (posted July 2026) for orphan gas storage well plugging across Gratiot and Montcalm counties, covering 38 wells total with July 21, 2026 response deadlines and prequalification restrictions limiting bidding to prior RFP awardees. The code also captures water well drilling, rehabilitation, and maintenance services procured by municipal water departments and special districts—routine and emergency pump maintenance, mechanical brushing and chemical treatment of aging wells, and emergency response call-outs on hourly or task-order terms.

Geographic concentration is heaviest in Michigan (the orphan well push) and Florida, where Sarasota County, Hillsborough County, Marion County, Seminole County, and Volusia County have posted well construction, abandonment, maintenance, and rehabilitation solicitations between February and July 2026. Secondary activity spans Mississippi (orphan well plugging under federal IIJA funding), Texas (RFQs for high hydrogen sulfide well services and water treatment plant design), California (EMWD digester gas and well maintenance RFPs), Illinois (supplemental irrigation well installation with small business set-asides), and Georgia (monitoring well replacement and deep well installation). Representative recent opportunities include the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy's Orphan Well New Haven Sec 3 solicitation (three wells, direct solicitation, due July 21, 2026); Hillsborough County's water well maintenance and repair services ITB for 67 irrigation and potable wells at $688,073 (due June 12, 2026); Sarasota County's single-family residential well abandonment quote request at $50,000 ceiling (due July 10, 2026); and the City of Palm Bay's production well construction RFP for four 17.4-inch wells at 850 feet depth (due April 28, 2026). Issuing bodies span state environmental and natural resources departments, county water authorities, municipal utilities, regional water districts, and solid waste authorities; federal funding through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act has accelerated orphaned well plugging procurements in oil and gas regulatory jurisdictions.