UNSPSC 71122506: Flare services

Services to burn off waste gases in a controlled manner

UNSPSC 71122506 Flare services is a Commodity code that state and local governments use to buy services related to the operation, maintenance, repair, and installation of flare systems at landfills, wastewater facilities, and other industrial sites. The recent opportunities block shows minimal direct alignment with the nominal code scope—most recent solicitations center instead on well drilling, plugging, maintenance, and abandonment services, plus some water infrastructure construction and pump station work, none of which fits flare services. The single entry that approaches the code's stated scope is a 2026 Maryland Environmental Service bid for construction of a new enclosed flare system to combust landfill gas and demolition of existing flares at the Brown Station Road Sanitary Landfill in Upper Marlboro with a 20 percent Minority Business Enterprise participation goal, posted June 16, 2026 with bids due July 16, 2026. The issuing bodies in the opportunities block span state environmental and energy departments (Michigan EGLE, Mississippi Oil and Gas Board, Illinois Department of Natural Resources), counties and municipalities (Gwinnett County Georgia, Seminole County Florida, Hillsborough County Florida, Sarasota County Florida), cities (Lubbock Texas, Austin Texas, Bend Oregon, Albany Georgia, Reynolds Georgia, Ocala Florida), and special districts (Escambia County Waste Services, Boulder County Parks and Open Space, San Bernardino County Department of Public Works). No other state or local procurement activity under UNSPSC 71122506 flare services appears in the recent-opportunities block.

The geographic concentration of activity outside the nominal code scope spans Michigan, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, Illinois, Oregon, Maryland, and Colorado. The Brown Station Road flare project remains the only recent opportunity traceable to the code's stated scope. Given that the overwhelming majority of recent opportunities tagged to this code actually concern well construction, plugging, abandonment, pump maintenance, and water infrastructure rather than flare system work, the code shows little relevant recent procurement activity. Business development professionals should verify whether state and local procurement offices are consistently mislabeling well and water-infrastructure work under this flare-services code, or whether flare-system procurement is genuinely dormant in the current cycle and opportunities are being aggregated under an incorrect taxonomy tier.