UNSPSC 71121608: Well drilling contract development services

Services to help develop and structure a contracts for drilling a well.

UNSPSC 71121608 Well drilling contract development services is a Commodity code covering plugging, drilling, testing, rehabilitation, and abandonment of water supply wells, monitoring wells, and orphaned oil and gas wells that state and local governments solicit through direct construction contracts and on-call service agreements. State and local issuing bodies—including state environmental and natural resources departments, municipal water utilities, county water districts, special-purpose water management districts, and correctional facilities—contract for well drilling work across multiple geographies. Recent solicitations span plugging of orphaned wells in Michigan and Mississippi under federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding, municipal water supply well construction in Florida and Georgia, monitoring well installations at landfills, stock water well development on county agricultural leases, and emergency well casing repair at correctional facilities. Work typically includes site preparation, drilling to specified depths, casing and screen installation, pump selection and installation, water quality testing, well development, and site restoration. Contractors routinely face Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements on federally funded projects, American Iron and Steel Special Conditions on state revolving fund loans, and mandatory compliance with state drinking water and environmental protection rules.

Activity appears across Michigan, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Texas, and Colorado, with the heaviest concentration in Michigan's orphaned well plugging program and Mississippi's parallel Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act initiative. Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has issued multiple direct solicitations (July–October 2026) for prequalified contractor pools addressing orphaned gas storage wells in Gratiot, Montcalm, and Kent Counties, with proposals due mid-to-late July 2026 and evaluation weighted equally across key personnel, business-owned equipment, technical experience, and vendor questions at a minimum 80-point threshold. The Mississippi Oil and Gas Board solicited bids on nine orphaned wells in Jasper and Jones Counties (IFB due December 18, 2026) and ten wells in Adams and Walthall Counties (IFB due August 28, 2026), both subject to Build America, Buy America Act and Davis-Bacon compliance. Municipal water utilities including the City of Albany, Georgia (well rehabilitation, ITB due November 16, 2026); Hilldale Water District, Mississippi (350-GPM production well, bids due September 29, 2026); the City of Wrens, Georgia (12-inch gravel-pack well with pump and electrical, IFB due September 3, 2026); and the Northwest Florida Water Management District (three monitoring wells at St. Andrews State Park, ITB due September 1, 2026) represent the municipal segment. San Bernardino County and Boulder County Parks and Open Space operate on-call well maintenance and repair agreements with maximum contract values of $2.8 million and $350,000 respectively, spanning five-year terms. Illinois Department of Corrections and other facilities contract for specialized services such as color video surveys and well casing repair on fixed-term procurement (quote deadlines in August–September 2026).