UNSPSC 71122710: Oilfield tubular maintenance services

Repairs to tubulars

UNSPSC 71122710 Oilfield tubular maintenance services, a Commodity code, encompasses well abandonment, plugging, and site restoration work that state and local governments procure when managing orphaned or decommissioned oil and gas infrastructure. Recent state and local activity under this code centers on the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy conducting multiple direct solicitations for plugging and site restoration at orphan gas storage wells in Gratiot and Montcalm Counties. The work being solicited includes comprehensive well abandonment covering site supervision, labor across multiple classifications, rig services in various configurations, well casing and tubing rental, drilling equipment, cementing services, mud engineering and fluids, wireline services, waste disposal, heavy equipment operations, site preparation, and restoration. Representative recent opportunities include DS7612600000000322 for three orphan wells in the New Haven Section 3 area (Gratiot County), DS7612600000000332 for fourteen wells in New Haven Energy Section 4 (Gratiot County), DS7612600000000342 for twelve wells across Gratiot and Montcalm Counties, and DS7612600000000352 for nine wells in New Haven Sections 31–33 (Gratiot County), all with response deadlines of July 21, 2026. All four Michigan solicitations require prequalification through one of five prior RFPs and mandatory pre-proposal meeting attendance on July 9, 2026; proposals are evaluated on key personnel, business-owned equipment, technical experience, and vendor questions worksheet, with best value (not lowest price) determining award. The issuing-body mix in recent activity consists primarily of state-level environmental or natural resource departments managing orphaned-well remediation programs, though the source shows limited geographic concentration. Activity appears most concentrated in Michigan, with the recent batch of four New Haven–area solicitations from the state's EGLE office representing the dominant recent procurement pattern, all posting within a single week in mid-July 2026 and sharing identical response dates and prequalification requirements.

The code shows narrowly focused recent activity centered on orphan-well abandonment in Michigan under federally funded infrastructure programs. Four direct solicitations posted July 16, 2026, account for the bulk of identifiable recent opportunity volume, with all work subject to Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements and all contracting restricted to previously prequalified vendors. Beyond the Michigan cluster, the source contains no other state or local opportunities tagged to UNSPSC 71122710 or representing equivalent oilfield tubular maintenance work. Geographic concentration in Michigan's natural gas storage well remediation efforts, combined with the tight prequalification filter and mandatory meeting requirement, suggests this code sees episodic activity driven by specific regulatory cleanup mandates rather than continuous procurement demand. Bidders without prior award under Michigan's qualifying RFPs face a hard eligibility barrier despite demonstrating comparable well-plugging qualifications elsewhere.