Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1990 [PAGE 465]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

453

(The student advisory vote was: Aye, Ms. Caporusso, Mr. Mitchell; no, none.)

Contracts, Grainger Engineering Library Information Center, Urbana

(27) T h e president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the following contracts be awarded for the Grainger Engineering Library Information Center project at the Urbana campus. This award of contracts is subject to and conditioned upon the execution of a memorandum of agreement with the Illinois Historical Preservation Agency. T h e award in each case is to the lowest responsible bidder on its base bid. Bid Item #2 — Site Heating Reliable Plumbing & Heating Co., Champaign Bid Item #5 — Site Plumbing Frank J. Strahl 8c Sons, Inc., Danville Bid Item #4 — Site Electrical Hatfield Electric Co., Peoria Total Base Bid $278 170 99 999 114 900 $493 069

This bid group consists of site utilities work necessary to prepare the existing site for the new building. T h e proposals for the balance of the work will be in subsequent bid groups. T h e project will not have a coordinating general contractor and the responsibility for providing "general condition" items (e.g. tools and supplies, temporary roads, water, weather protection, temporary light and power, material and personnel hoists, site plumbing, general protection, etc.) will be arranged by P. K. DeMars, the construction manager for the project, as the items are needed. T h e total cost of the general conditions has been budgeted at approximately $450,000 for the duration of the project. T h e cost of some items may exceed $25,000. In order for the project to proceed without delay, it is recommended that the comptroller be authorized to approve contract change orders to the appropriate contractors to provide for general condition items of work within the budgeted $450,000 total. Gift funds are available through the University of Illinois Foundation and from the institutional funds budget of the College of Engineering and the vice chancellor for academic affairs. A schedule of the bids received has been filed with the secretary of the board for record.

On motion of Mrs. Shepherd, these contracts were awarded by the following vote: Aye, Dr. Bacon, Mr. Boyle, Mrs. Calder, Mr. Downey, Mr. Grabowski, Mrs. Gravenhorst, Mr. Lamont, Ms. Reese, Mrs. Shepherd; no, none; absent, Governor Edgar. (The student advisory vote was: Aye, Ms. Caporusso, Mr. Mitchell; no, none.)

Purchases

(28) T h e president submitted, with his concurrence, a list of purchases recommended by the directors of purchases and the vice president for business and finance. T h e purchases were presented in two categories: purchases from appropriated funds (i.e., from State appropriations to the University); and purchases from institutional funds. T h e latter term designates funds received by the University under contracts with the United States government, private corporations, and other orga-