UNSPSC 71122407: Drill stem testing services

Tests for reservoir pressure, permeability, skin, or productivity, downhole pressure measurements to determine reservoir characterization.

UNSPSC 71122407 Drill stem testing services is a Commodity code that sits at odds with the recent state and local procurement activity tagged under it. The source records show no solicitations for drill stem testing — a specialized service used in oil and gas wellbore diagnostics and characterization. Instead, the opportunities tagged to this code span water well construction, rehabilitation, abandonment, and maintenance; orphan oil and gas well plugging; wastewater pump station repair; and irrigation system installation. The mismatch suggests either systematic miscoding in the procurement databases or a deliberate reuse of the UNSPSC code to cast a wide net across well and drilling services. State and local governments buying under this code are drilling and well-service end-users: municipal water departments, state environmental agencies, county utilities, park systems, and water management districts. The issuing bodies include the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE); the Mississippi Oil and Gas Board; the Illinois Department of Corrections; cities of Albany (Georgia), Lubbock (Texas), Reynolds (Georgia), Pascagoula (Mississippi), Wrens (Georgia), and Bend (Oregon); counties in Michigan, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Colorado, and Mississippi; and special-purpose districts in California and Oregon.

Geographic concentration clusters in Michigan (orphan well plugging via EGLE), Florida (county water utilities and wastewater pump stations), Mississippi (orphan well remediation and municipal water supply), Georgia (municipal water wells), and Illinois (state fish and wildlife area irrigation, correctional facility wells). Recent representative opportunities include the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy issuing multiple direct solicitations in July 2026 for plugging, drilling, re-drilling, and site restoration at orphan gas storage wells in Gratiot, Kent, and Montcalm Counties (proposals due July 21, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern, restricted to prequalified vendors); the Mississippi Oil and Gas Board requesting sealed bids on October 5, 2026 for plugging and reclamation of nine orphaned oil and gas wells in Jasper and Jones Counties under Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding (bids due December 18, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. CST, mandatory pre-bid site inspection October 22, 2026); Hillsborough County issuing an Invitation to Bid on May 19, 2026 for water well maintenance and repair services across 67 irrigation and potable water wells for a two-year estimated value of $688,073 (sealed bids due June 12, 2026); and the City of Albany issuing sealed bids on October 12, 2026 for rehabilitation and upgrade of Well No. 21 (bids due November 16, 2026 at 2:30 p.m.). Orphan well plugging under federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding dominates recent activity, with Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements, build-America buy-America compliance, and federally structured prequalification pools creating elevated entry costs and barriers to casual bidders.