UNSPSC 71121800: Artificial lift services

Services that add energy to the fluid column in a wellbore with the objective of initiating and improving production from the well.

UNSPSC 71121800 Artificial lift services is a Class code that encompasses water well drilling, installation, rehabilitation, abandonment, and associated infrastructure work. State and local governments procure this code for municipal water supply wells, irrigation systems, wastewater pump station equipment, orphaned and abandoned well plugging, and emergency or maintenance services on existing well systems. Recent solicitations span water well construction for municipal supplies, irrigation improvements at parks and recreation facilities, groundwater exploration and monitoring well installation, well casing repair and video survey services, and coordinated plugging of abandoned oil and gas wells under federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding.

State, county, city, and special-district issuing bodies solicit under this code across the United States. Recent activity clusters in Michigan (Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy conducting multiple orphan well plugging solicitations), Mississippi (Mississippi Oil and Gas Board and municipal water districts), Florida (City of DeBary, Escambia County, Hillsborough County, Sarasota County), Illinois (Department of Corrections, Department of Natural Resources), Georgia (City of Albany, City of Reynolds, City of Wrens), and the Pacific Northwest. The Illinois Department of Corrections has posted multiple well survey and casing-repair solicitations at the same facility (Sheridan Correctional Center) since August 2026. Representative recent opportunities include the City of DeBary's Rob Sullivan Park Irrigation Improvements (IFB, $90,000 contract for Hunter irrigation system conversion and installation, bid deadline April 10, 2015); the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy's Gilbert Orphan Well Plugging project in Kent County (prequalified-vendor-only direct solicitation, proposal deadline October 12, 2026, federally funded under IIJA); the City of Albany, Georgia's Well No. 21 Rehabilitation (IFB for sealed bids, November 16, 2026); the Mississippi Oil and Gas Board's nine-well orphan-well plugging project (IFB, bids due December 18, 2026, mandatory pre-bid October 22, 2026, IIJA and Davis-Bacon compliance required); and San Bernardino County's on-call well and pump maintenance services (RFQ for task-based repair work, five-year term, $2.8 million maximum, proposals due August 31, 2026). Michigan's prequalification vehicle for oil and gas services and multiple direct solicitations to prequalified contractors dominate the most recent batch, indicating a sustained multiyear orphan-well remediation program funded federally. Illinois has shown repeat activity for well inspection and repair at state correctional facilities, and Florida counties are actively soliciting both new well construction for water supply and maintenance services for existing systems. Build America Buy America Act compliance, Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements, and state-level small-business or service-disabled veteran set-asides appear frequently in federally or state-funded well projects.