UNSPSC 71122303: Subsea well fixturing or test equipment services

Test bases, jigs, temporary and dummy fixtures simulating wellhead and hub interfaces for the purpose of landing, locking, sealing and testing subsea equipment prior to installation.

UNSPSC 71122303 Subsea well fixturing or test equipment services is a Commodity code, and the recent state and local procurement activity under it bears minimal connection to the code's nominal scope. The source shows no genuine subsea or deepwater well testing equipment procurements; instead, the opportunities tagged to this code are overwhelmingly orphan well plugging, site restoration, and municipal groundwater well maintenance and rehabilitation work—activities unrelated to offshore or subsea infrastructure. Michigan's Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has posted four direct solicitations in July 2026 for plugging and restoration of 38 orphan gas storage wells across Gratiot and Montcalm Counties, all due July 21, 2026, with prequalification requirements and Davis-Bacon prevailing wage compliance. Other states and municipalities active under or near this code include Florida counties (Seminole, Sarasota, Marion, Hillsborough) procuring wastewater pump station services and well abandonment; California's San Bernardino County seeking on-call well maintenance; Illinois' Department of Natural Resources issuing small-business set-asides for irrigation well installation; Texas agencies conducting orphan well plugging RFQs and water treatment plant engineering; and Mississippi's Oil and Gas Board soliciting well remediation services funded through federal Orphaned Wells Program grants. The code shows modest recent activity concentrated in Michigan, Florida, and a scattering across Texas, California, Illinois, Oregon, Georgia, and Mississippi, with issuing bodies spanning state environmental agencies, county utilities departments, municipal water authorities, and special districts.

The work actually being procured under this code—plugging, abandonment, and restoration of orphaned oil and gas wells; municipal groundwater well drilling, maintenance, rehabilitation, and testing; wastewater pump station repair; and water treatment plant design—reflects real state and local procurement volume in subsurface infrastructure and well services, not the subsea testing equipment the code nominally describes. Representative solicitations include Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy orphan well plugging (RFP-style direct solicitations DS7612600000000322, DS7612600000000331, DS7612600000000332, DS7612600000000341, DS7612600000000351, and DS7612600000000352 for three to fourteen wells per contract, proposals due July 21, 2026); Hillsborough County, Florida's water well maintenance and repair services IFB 26-00234 estimated at $688,073 for two years; San Bernardino County Department of Public Works RFQ SPD126SPDAD6431 for on-call well and pump services with a maximum contract value of $2.8 million over five years; Seminole County, Florida's wastewater pump station repair and refurbishment IFB CC710026HSMA (due August 5, 2026), and Mississippi Oil and Gas Board's federally funded orphan well plugging IFBs. The mismatch between code name and actual procurement suggests either systematic miscoding of these opportunities by state and local procurement offices or a taxonomic gap in UNSPSC's coverage of modern groundwater and remediation work.