UNSPSC 71122005: Wireline well perforating services

Services using perforating guns that are run on wirelines.

UNSPSC 71122005 Wireline well perforating services, a Commodity code, encompasses plugging, drilling, and site restoration work for orphaned and abandoned gas storage wells, which state and local governments procure as part of environmental remediation and infrastructure abandonment programs. The code captures specialized downhole operations—wireline services, mud engineering, cementing, and well-plugging materials—that are embedded in the broader scope of well abandonment contracts. State and local issuing bodies include departments of environmental protection or natural resources (Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy; Mississippi Oil and Gas Board; Illinois Department of Natural Resources; Texas General Land Office), county and municipal authorities managing water utilities and orphaned well programs, and special-purpose water and wastewater districts. Michigan's Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy dominates recent activity, issuing four back-to-back direct solicitations in July 2026 for plugging 38 orphaned gas storage wells across Gratiot and Montcalm counties—the New Haven Energy Section 3, Section 4, Sections 5–10, and Sections 31–33 groupings—under notices DS7612600000000322 (3 wells due July 21, 2026), DS7612600000000332 (14 wells due July 21, 2026), DS7612600000000342 (12 wells due July 21, 2026), and DS7612600000000352 (9 wells due July 21, 2026), all issued as direct solicitations (not competitive RFPs or RFQs) restricted to prequalified vendors from five prior RFPs and requiring attendance at a mandatory pre-proposal meeting on July 9, 2026.

The work being procured reflects real environmental compliance demand: Michigan's solicitations specify 68 line-item pricing matrices covering site prep, mobilization and demobilization, plugging operations, site restoration, Davis-Bacon prevailing wage labor (Wireline Operator and Wireline Rigger at $39.57 per hour plus $25.25 fringe, among other classifications), equipment rental (pole rigs, derrick rigs, hydraulic systems, mud systems), materials (casing, tubing, cementing products), and waste disposal across 38 wells with July 21, 2026 response deadlines and best-value award criteria weighted toward key personnel (25 points), business-owned equipment (25 points), technical experience (25 points), and vendor questions (25 points) with an 80-point minimum threshold. Geographic activity concentrates in Michigan (four July 2026 solicitations), Mississippi (three open IFBs in March–April 2026 for 17 orphaned wells across multiple counties under federally funded IIJA Orphaned Wells Program grants), and Texas (Railroad Commission statewide well plugging RFQ and Texas General Land Office H2S well services RFQ). Broader water-well maintenance and rehabilitation procurement—which overlaps wireline services scope in testing, logging, and equipment operations—shows parallel activity across Hillsborough County (ITB for 67 irrigation and potable water wells, $688,073 estimated value), Eastern Municipal Water District in California (RFP for well maintenance and rehabilitation with two awards anticipated over five years, maximum $2.8 million per contract), and San Bernardino County (RFQ for on-call well and pump services, $2.8 million over five years). The code sees moderate but geographically dispersed activity driven by orphaned-well remediation grant funding and routine municipal water utility maintenance; absent the federal Orphaned Wells Program push, procurement under 71122005 would likely be narrower and less concentrated.