UNSPSC 72152801: Domestic water well drilling service

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

UNSPSC 72152801 Domestic water well drilling service is a Commodity code that covers the drilling, installation, and abandonment of water wells serving municipal, county, state park, and special-district water systems. State and local governments buy drilling services to construct new production wells, rehabilitate or repair existing wells, plug orphan or abandoned wells, and install monitoring or exploratory wells. Recent solicitations show a mix of new well construction, well replacement, well rehabilitation, casing repair via video survey, and orphan well plugging funded in part by federal infrastructure programs.

Issuing bodies span state environmental and natural resources departments, municipalities, counties, special-purpose districts, state parks, and water authorities. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy appears repeatedly as a significant buyer of orphan well plugging services under prequalification and direct-solicitation frameworks. Counties in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Michigan post regularly for municipal water infrastructure and well maintenance work. Representative recent opportunities include the City of Albany, Georgia soliciting sealed bids for Well No. 21 rehabilitation (due November 16, 2026), the Mississippi Oil and Gas Board requesting bids for plugging nine orphaned oil and gas wells in Jasper and Jones Counties (due December 18, 2026), the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department issuing an ITB for design and installation of a replacement water supply well at Silver Falls State Park (due November 2, 2026), the City of DeBary, Florida's competitive bid for Rob Sullivan Park irrigation system improvements involving well-related infrastructure (due April 10, 2015—a dated entry), and Hillsborough County's ITB for two-year water well maintenance and repair services across 67 irrigation and potable wells ($688,073 estimated value, due June 12, 2026). Activity concentrates in Florida, Michigan, Georgia, and Mississippi, with additional opportunities in Texas, Oregon, Colorado, Illinois, and Ohio. Many recent solicitations are tied to federal funding under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, triggering Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements, Build America Buy America compliance, and American Iron and Steel provisions. Well drilling work increasingly requires documented experience, current state licensing, comprehensive insurance (general liability, workers' compensation, pollution liability), and prequalification in advance of direct project solicitations.