UNSPSC 72141206: Dredging service

The dredging of waterways owned by others

UNSPSC 72141206 Dredging service is a Commodity code representing sediment removal, dewatering, and debris clearance work that state and local governments buy as discrete line items within larger bridge, roadway, and water-infrastructure projects. Recent solicitations show the code applied narrowly to specialized dredging tasks—most prominently the Norwich Public Utilities dredging and dewatering of sludge from settling lagoons at the Deep River Water Treatment Plant in Connecticut (ITB 27-02, due July 29, 2026)—rather than as a primary procurement category. County governments, municipalities, and utilities authorities are the dominant issuing bodies, with activity spread across coastal Florida, the upper Midwest, and the Northeast. Dredging appears most frequently as a subordinate component within bridge and roadway reconstruction projects where channel excavation, embankment removal, or sediment management is required under a broader construction scope rather than as a standalone service purchase.

Recent solicitations from state departments of transportation and county engineering offices in Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and Oregon include dredging line items within local-system bridge programs and highway projects. The Board of Supervisors of Perry County, Mississippi solicited channel excavation (1,960 cubic yards specified) and unclassified excavation as part of a bridge and roadway reconstruction on Industrial Parkway (IFB due July 28, 2026). Pinellas County, Florida's Ridgemoor Boulevard Bridge replacement ITB (due July 28, 2026, estimated $7.616 million) embedded sediment and erosion control with turbidity barriers and temporary wetland impacts requiring coordination with state water-management districts. Bulloch County, Georgia's bridge projects at Cypress Lake Road and G.W. Oliver Road both required contractors to manage drainage improvements and earth excavation within larger prestressed-concrete-bridge construction scopes. The code shows uneven activity—some recent state-local opportunities do not clearly align with dredging services, and the category appears to capture either peripheral dredging work bundled into construction RFPs or occasional standalone dewatering and sludge-handling contracts at water-treatment facilities and municipal utilities. Geographic concentration is light across the South and Southeast; the Norwich utilities contract is among the few recent opportunities with dredging as the primary procured service.