Asset Management and Valuation Services

Strategic Asset Management Services, including inventory/verification of land, infrastructure, buildings, and equipment for asset management and financial reporting, addressing challenges and solutions.

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Insurance valuation services

Insurers, Brokers, and Underwriters rely on accurate moveable equipment and real property data for insurance risk management reporting purposes. Underreported, or inflated insurable property values could possibly result in payment of inaccurate premiums, which can result in inadequate insurance coverage in the event of a catastrophic loss.

Our service offering can support your institution's Risk Manager with accurate replacement costs and asset documentation for insurance placement requirements with current/accurate asset values. In the event of a loss, we can provide “Proof of Loss” services as part of our Insurance Valuation Services.

Space inventory/ verification studies

We will perform a Physical Space Inventory of all buildings where significant Organized Research/Other Sponsored Activities take place. 

This space inventory will include the following tasks:

  • Electronically Measure Each Room to Verify Reported Square Footage
  • Assign the appropriate Higher Education General Information System (HEGIS)/Facilities Inventory Classification Manual (FICM) Codes
  • Assign Principal Investigator (PI) for rooms where Organized Research/Other Sponsored Activities take place
  • Provide Physical changes to the room layout, or occupancy designation on the floor plan
  • Provide a database in an Excel Space Inventory File with a Letter of Certification

Building componentization

If your institution currently depreciates its buildings over a 40, 50, or 60-year life, you are probably not maximizing your potential depreciation benefits. Building Componentization allows you to adjust the average asset lives from say, 60 years to perhaps 20 to 30 years, thus accelerating your depreciation and increasing F&A reimbursement. Additionally, with periodic/ongoing building renovations, new PI’s occupying new space, the lifing of these assets due to renovations, improvements, or betterments, could be significant and should be accurately reported.

Maximus will perform a Building Componentization study in accordance with OMB 2 CFR 200 of your research-intensive buildings (Organized research activities of a defined percentage of Organized Research activities) by accurately identifying and segregating construction and renovation costs into the OMB designated cost reporting groups below:

 Building Shell                         Building Services                  Fixed Equipment
Building EnvelopeHVAC System   Laboratory Benches and Cabinetry
Exterior/Interior Construction   Plumbing System  Exhaust/Fume Hoods
Roof FramingEmergency Power Support SystemsEmergency Eye Wash/Shower Stations
Building FoundationFire protection System Fixed Auditorium Seating
Below Ground Infrastructure SystemsElectrical System Vivarium Support Equipment
 Elevators/Escalators          Sterilizers / Glassware Washers


While we are componentizing the building structures, we also perform a formal lifing analysis of the Building Shell, Building Services, and Fixed Equipment Asset classifications via an interview process with your facilities department to arrive at individual lives, “based upon institutional experience,” consistent with OMB 2 CFR 200.

Assest management policies and procedures

It is important to note that every entity must have current formal Asset Management Policies and Procedures in place that are subject to Internal/Independent, as well as State & Federal cognizant auditor review.

Maximus can review your Fixed Asset policies and procedures, as well as your Real Property facilities construction policies and procedures. This service will include a review of your institution's acquisition, capitalization, updating, and disposition Policies & Procedures associated with your Moveable/Fixed Equipment Assets. Additionally, with this effort, we will review your institution's Buildings (Real Property) Policies & Procedures to include Renovations/Improvements, Capitalization Policies for Improvements/Betterments vs ongoing Maintenance/Repairs,  Acquisition/Donations of Buildings vs Construction, and Improvements to Leased property.

Physical inventory and reconciliation services

Having an accurate inventory of your Moveable/Fixed Equipment  Assets and identifying these assets to the Building/Floor, Department and Room level is very important. This effort will allow your institution to comply with the OMB 2 CFR 200 bi-annual inventory requirements, comply with asset stewardship requirements for Federally Funded assets, allow for asset screening requirements to avoid duplicate asset purchases, and bring the asset depreciation to the room level to maximize your deprecation by research function for F&A reporting purposes.

For this effort, we will conduct a complete wall-to-wall physical inventory with barcode/RFID asset tagging services on a room-by-room basis, of your moveable and fixed equipment with little to no disruption to ongoing research activities. We will verify the Building, Floor, Department, and Room Number for each location included in our proposed study. We will scan each current barcode asset tag affixed to each asset, that meets your current capitalization policy of $5,000, and greater. If an asset is not currently tagged at the time of our inventory, we will affix a new tag to those assets. Once these assets are scanned, we will also verify the Building, Floor, Room, Department, Asset Description, Model, Manufacturer, and Serial Number data fields for each asset scanned. In the event an asset was relocated from its previous location, we will update the new location of the transferred asset.

  • At the conclusion of our inventory, we will reconcile the “new” physical inventory to the “current” inventory that your institution maintains and provide you with the following reconciliation reports:
  • Assets Matched - assets scanned that match assets currently recorded in your Fixed Asset Database.
  • Unrecorded Additions - assets not previously tagged and not currently identified in your current inventory database.
  • Unrecorded Retirements - assets reported in the current Fixed Asset Data Base, but not physically located during our physical inventory study.