UNSPSC 71121403: Oilfield drilling bit planning services

Services for pre-well and future well bit planning.

UNSPSC 71121403 Oilfield drilling bit planning services is a Commodity code. State and local governments procuring under this code are actually buying comprehensive well plugging, abandonment, and site restoration services for orphaned oil and gas wells—a scope far broader than the abstract "drilling bit planning" name suggests. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy dominates recent activity, issuing four parallel direct solicitations in mid-July 2026 for plugging and site restoration across 38 orphan gas storage wells operated by New Haven Energy LLC in Gratiot and Montcalm counties. These RFPs (issued as direct solicitations with mandatory pre-proposal meetings and response deadlines of July 21, 2026) require bidders to submit comprehensive unit pricing across 68 line items spanning labor, equipment rental, drilling fluids, wireline services, cementing, waste disposal, and site restoration, along with detailed project timelines segmented by site prep, mobilization, plugging, and restoration phases. All work is subject to Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements. Eligibility is restricted to vendors prequalified through prior Michigan RFPs, creating a closed competitive set. Evaluation emphasizes technical qualifications (key personnel, business-owned equipment, technical experience, and vendor questions worksheet responses) with an 80-point minimum threshold and best-value selection, not lowest price.

Activity is heavily concentrated in Michigan, with no comparable recent opportunities from other states visible in the dataset. The code shows minimal broader relevance to state and local procurement; the Michigan solicitations account for all substantive recent activity under this Commodity code. A single quotation solicitation from Sarasota County for well abandonment services at a private residential property (quotes due July 10, 2026, with a $50,000 ceiling) represents the only other marginally related opportunity, though that work is narrowly scoped to a single residential well rather than the multi-well, large-scale orphan well remediation driving Michigan's procurements. State and local governments outside the orphaned well remediation context—counties, cities, and special districts—show no recent demand for drilling bit planning services or related oilfield work under this code. Pursuit depends entirely on prequalification status in Michigan's historical RFP processes and capacity to service large, complex well abandonment projects under federal prevailing wage and environmental compliance frameworks.