A professional who coordinates property procurement and maintenance activities, and negotiates with representatives to effect property transfers and sales, rental, and leasing contracts for government agency. Responsibilities include:

• Reviews property-related data, such as inventories, budgets, planning reports, vendor brochures, and excess property and property request reports, to obtain information on property status, needs, and availability.
• Writes, fills out, and reviews bids, contract specifications, purchase orders and estimates, and transfer forms to effect property transactions.
• Contacts vendors and potential users, and inspects and inventories acquired and transferred property through visits to government installations and vendor sites.
• Negotiates and confers with administrators, vendors, or users to effect agreement on property transfer details, such as price, model, packaging, transportation, land boundaries, or building layout.
• Authorizes expenditures within specified limits for purchases of supplies and equipment, equipment repair and maintenance, and alterations to premises.
• Fills government agency or other qualifying organization requests from surplus inventories, considering factors such as donation criteria, actual needs, and justification.
• Prepares plans, standards, and specifications for building and equipment maintenance, repair, and inspection.
• May be designated according to property involved as Real-Estate-Utilization Officer; State-Surplus-Commodity-And-Property Representative.