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Indiana’s Department of Administration, Public Works Division, on behalf of the Department of Natural Resources, is seeking bids for oil and gas orphan-well plugging under project ENG2712302032. The work is in Posey and Gibson counties. The state’s current DNR bidding page lists the submission deadline as 20 October 2026 at 2:30 p.m. Indianapolis time.

Prime contractors need a current Public Works Certificate of Qualification and prequalification in Oil Well Services, classification 1799.06. The email-subject and filename examples use ENG2712302031, while the actual project is ENG2712302032; bidders should confirm the controlling identifiers with the issuer. The stated $150,000 threshold is not a project estimate; no contract value is reported.