Acting Director, Richard T. Fields
6011 Executive Blvd/639A
Phone: 301-402-6279
E-mail: FieldsR@mail.nih.gov

The Division of Personal Property Services is responsible for

1. managing all aspects of the NIH personal property (equipment asset management) program;
2. maintaining a liaison with other Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) organizations including the Office of the Secretary to develop and recommend property policy, procedure, and operating matters including the resolution of audit reports;
3. providing written policy and procedural guidance to NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) regarding property accountability, physical and perpetual inventory; utilization, and disposal;
4. disseminating, interpreting and carrying out Federal and Departmental regulations;
5. consolidating NIH reporting requirements governing property management, including progress on GPRA goals and external property reports to GSA;
6. analyzing, developing, and coordinating DHHS and NIH initiatives in property management;
7. consolidating quarterly and annual DHHS logistics reports;
8. maintaining liaison on property issues with the NIH community and represents NIH property services to the public, industry and other Governmental agencies;
9. serving as NIH's central liaison on property matters involving the DHHS Office of Inspector General, the General Accounting Office, the DHHS Office of Audit, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and congressional members;
10. conducting follow-up on the NIH property audits and reviews conducted by the OIG, GAO and other audit functions;
11. monitoring NIH property Corrective Action Plans for CFO reports, internal and external management control assessments;
12. formulating and monitors progress toward the satisfaction of GPRA goals;
13. participating on task forces and property management studies;
14. coordinating decentralized personal property management activities including IC property management evaluations;
15. furnishing technical guidance to NIH Institutes and Centers, concerning property management;
16. conducting NIH logistics Functional Reviews in the area of property;
17. serving as liaison with IC property management staffs;
18. maintaining the system integrity of the NIH property management system;
19. administering Government property in the hands of NIH contractors, grantees and cooperative agreement recipients;
20. receiving and consolidating reports of contractor-held Government property;
21. approving and reviewing Contract Property Systems,
22. serving as the NIH liaison with other Contract Property Administration agencies;
23. providing for the removal, storage, accountability, re-utilization and/or disposal of available un-required NIH Government property, including property acquired upon termination of research contracts and grants;
24. reporting property no longer required by NIH to the General Services Administration as required by Federal and Department regulation;
25. cooperating with GSA to streamline disposal efforts using, whenever possible, accelerated screening and sale procedures to dispose of NIH excess/surplus property.

Property Administration Branch
Chief, Richard T. Fields
6011 Executive Blvd/639A
Phone: 301-402-6279
E-mail: FieldsR@mail.nih.gov

Property Utilization Branch
Chief, Dan L. Reggia
16050 Industrial Drive
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Phone: 301-938-2725
E-Mail: ReggiaD@mail.nih.gov