The SPMO operates under the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Administration. Broadly, its stated functions per 996th BOR meeting dated February 24, 1987 and EO No. 99-2 dated July 12, 1999 are: – To procure and issue supplies and materials; – To maintain and control inventory records on properties; – To effect systematic and coordinated transfer of supplies, equipment and materials from one person/unit to another; – To sell and dispose of supplies, materials and equipment which are obsolete, condemned or surplus; – To conduct biddings for the disposition of disposable property and develop standard and criteria for determining their utility; – To administer and provide supply and property management services to all units of UPLB; and – To coordinate, perform or assign to other competent units, the purchasing, storage, standardization of specification, property utilization, disposition and accountability insofar as there will be consistent of effectiveness, efficiency, economy.