UNSPSC 71121702: Oilfield fishing service economic evaluation services

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UNSPSC 71121702 Oilfield fishing service economic evaluation services, Commodity tier, does not align with the state and local procurement activity present in the source. The recent opportunities block names no solicitations for oilfield fishing services or economic evaluation work. Instead, the code has been applied to irrigation system improvements, orphan oil and gas well plugging, water well drilling and rehabilitation, wastewater pump station maintenance, well abandonment, and drainage design projects. These diverge substantially from the code's nominal scope. The majority of recent activity centers on orphan well plugging and water infrastructure maintenance and repair — services funded under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and state drinking water programs, not oilfield economic evaluation.

State and local issuers in the recent-opportunities block include the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (multiple direct solicitations and RFPs for orphan well plugging), the Mississippi Oil and Gas Board (plugging and remediation of orphaned wells), city water departments (Albany, Reynolds, Wrens, Pascagoula, Lubbock, Ocala, Austin), county governments (Sarasota, Seminole, Gwinnett, Escambia, San Bernardino, Boulder), the Illinois Department of Corrections and Department of Natural Resources, Oregon Parks and Recreation, and Texas Parks and Wildlife. Activity clusters in Michigan (multiple EGLE direct solicitations for orphan wells in Gratiot and Montcalm counties), Mississippi (orphan well plugging in Jasper, Jones, Adams, and Walthall counties), Florida (irrigation, well abandonment, wastewater pump stations, monitoring well installation), Georgia (water wells in Reynolds and Albany, drainage design in Bend, Oregon), and scattered activity in Illinois, Colorado, and Texas. Representative recent solicitations include the Michigan EGLE Gilbert Orphan Well Plugging project (direct solicitation DS 260000000032 and others, proposals due July 21, 2026) for plugging and site restoration of orphan gas wells; the Mississippi Oil and Gas Board IFB for plugging nine orphaned wells in Jasper and Jones Counties (bids due December 18, 2026, mandatory pre-bid October 22, 2026); Hillsborough County ITB 26-00234 for water well maintenance and repair services across 67 wells ($688,073 estimated value, bids due June 12, 2026); and City of Austin IFB 8600-DCG1032REBID for well maintenance at Deep Eddy and Big Stacy pools (rebid, bids due October 1, 2026, with local business preference). The code shows little relevant recent activity and the mismatch between its nominal scope and what is actually being purchased suggests misclassification by individual issuing bodies rather than genuine opportunity under the oilfield economic evaluation taxonomy.