UNSPSC 71121611: Well drilling mud or fluid services

Services to include cleaning, filtration, mixing of mud or fluids.

UNSPSC 71121611 Well drilling mud or fluid services, a Commodity code, captures state and local procurement for specialized drilling fluid systems and mud engineering services used in orphan well plugging, water well construction, and geotechnical investigations. Recent solicitations show Michigan's Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) and Florida county utilities driving significant activity. EGLE issued four concurrent direct solicitations in July 2026—covering 38 total orphan gas storage wells across Gratiot and Montcalm counties—all requiring unit-priced drilling mud, mud truck operators, and mud engineering services as line items within broader well-plugging contracts. Bidders on these engagements must be prequalified through prior RFP vehicles and comply with Davis-Bacon prevailing wage schedules that set mud-related labor at $39.57 per hour plus $25.25 fringe. The code also spans water well construction (Marion County, Florida; Collier County, Florida; Palm Bay, Florida) where drilling mud and chemical treatment feature prominently, as well as remediation and monitoring well drilling (City of Helen, Georgia; Volusia County, Florida) where mud systems support geotechnical compliance testing and formation stabilization.

Geographic activity concentrates in Michigan (Gratiot and Montcalm counties), Florida (Marion, Collier, Brevard, Seminole, and Volusia counties), and scattered activity in Georgia, Mississippi, Illinois, Texas, and California. Issuing bodies span state environmental agencies, county utilities departments, and municipal water authorities. Representative recent solicitations include the Michigan EGLE orphan well contracts (DS7612600000000322, DS7612600000000332, DS7612600000000342, DS7612600000000352, due July 21, 2026, direct solicitation with prequalification requirement and Davis-Bacon prevailing wage), Marion County's four-well construction project (IFB 26B-081, due May 21, 2026, requiring comprehensive water quality and aquifer testing), and Seminole County's wastewater pump station master service agreement (CC-7100-26, due August 5, 2026, structured as task-order-based work with emergency response capability). The code sees steady activity in orphan well abandonment programs funded through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, particularly in oil-and-gas-producing states, where mud engineering and fluid disposal align with environmental remediation mandates.