UNSPSC 72152800: Water well drilling services

The drilling and maintenance of water wells on property owned by others

UNSPSC 72152800 Water well drilling services is a Class code. State and local governments soliciting under this code buy drilling, construction, testing, rehabilitation, plugging, and abandonment services for water supply wells, monitoring wells, exploratory wells, orphan oil and gas wells, and specialized well-support infrastructure. Recent activity spans multiple issuing bodies — state environmental and energy departments, regional water management districts, municipal water utilities, county governments, and special-purpose water authorities — with substantial federal funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act supporting orphan well plugging programs in Michigan and Mississippi. The work ranges from routine maintenance and video surveys to complex multi-well plugging operations subject to Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements, American Iron and Steel compliance, and Build America, Buy America Act mandates on federally funded projects.

Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is the most active recent buyer, issuing multiple direct solicitations throughout July 2026 for orphan gas well plugging in Gratiot, Montcalm, and Kent Counties, all restricted to prequalified vendors and totaling dozens of wells across four separate packages (RFx numbers DS 260000000032 through DS 260000000035, proposals due July 21, 2026). The Michigan prequalification RFP (posted August 25, 2026, due September 22, 2026) awards up to five contractors on a five-year vehicle with rolling quarterly additions. Mississippi Oil and Gas Board issued two major IFBs for orphan well plugging in Jasper, Jones, Adams, and Walthall Counties (proposals due August 24 and December 18, 2026), with federal funding and Build America, Buy America Act compliance required. Northwest Florida Water Management District awarded a contract for well construction and aquifer testing in Bay County (A C Schultes of Florida dba Rowe Drilling at $691,520, ITB 26B-003). The City of Albany, Georgia (RFQ due November 16, 2026) seeks Well No. 21 rehabilitation; the City of Reynolds, Georgia (IFB due August 14, 2026) solicits a 500-gallon-per-minute deep well with chemical feed building; Boulder County Parks and Open Space (RFP due September 4, 2026) seeks installation of six stock water wells across two agricultural properties for $350,000. California Department of Fish and Wildlife (Merced River Hatchery water system revision, due August 11, 2026, $160,000 estimated) requires 3% Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise participation as a responsive-bid condition. Illinois Department of Corrections issued multiple color video survey and casing repair quotes for Sheridan Correctional Center Well #1, with one marked as a small-business set-aside (quotes due August 24, 2026). Escambia County, Florida (ITQ due September 16, 2026, deadline passed) sought three monitoring well installations at Klondike Landfill requiring current Florida FDEP water well contractor licenses. Activity clusters in Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi, California, Colorado, Oregon, Illinois, Texas, North Carolina, and Massachusetts, with orphan well plugging work concentrated in the Great Lakes region and federally funded infrastructure projects nationwide.