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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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Contract for Consultant Firm for Reengineering of University Library Technical Services Operations, University Library, Chicago

(16) The interim chancellor at Chicago recommends approval of a contract with KMR Group, Inc., Chicago, to assist the Library during a project to reengineer the technical services operations in the Library. The fee for this consultation is $74,000 and the services would be effective from September 15, 1995, through June 30, 1996. KMR Group, Inc., will provide training in the appropriate skills needed to enable the Library reengineering teams to design and evaluate new processes which are expected to substantially improve the performance of the Library technical services operations. This reengineering proposal is designed to meet future requirements for technical services in the most efficient way possible. Expected outcomes from this process are: increased levels of service to Library patrons; enhanced quality of work in technical services activities; improved utilization of people, time, and money; and increased response to challenges of new information formats and their impact on the Library's role. Funds are available in the Library Institutional Funds budget. The vice president for academic affairs concurs. I recommend approval.

On motion of Ms. Reese, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Dr. Bacon, Mrs. Calder, Mr. Engelbrecht, Dr. Gindorf, Mrs. Gravenhorst, Mr. Lamont, Ms. Lopez, Mrs. O'Malley, Ms. Reese; no, none; absent, Governor Edgar. (The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Malone, Mr. Mathew, Mr. Rose; no, none.)

Contract for Fiscal Year 1996 for Cleaning Services, Institute on Disability and Human Development, Chicago

(17) The president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate University officers, recommends the award of a contract for $140,006 to Thresholds Rehabilitation, Inc. (Thresholds), Chicago, on its proposal under the "State Use Law Program."1 It has been determined that Thresholds qualifies as a Sheltered Workshop to provide contractual cleaning services in the Institute on Disability and Human Development (formerly the Institute for the Study of Developmental Disabilities), Chicago, for FY 1996. The project consists of supervision, labor, pest and rodent control, and supplies adequate to maintain approximately 173,364 square feet of floor area; areas of the building will be cleaned on an alternate day or weekly basis. Additions or deletions in work will be implemented by a written change order. Such adjustments will be based upon the unit price submitted by the contractor in its proposal. Thresholds Rehabilitation, Inc., has provided cleaning services for the Institute on Disability and Human Development during FY 1994 and FY 1995. Funds are available in the FY 1996 Institutional Funds Operating Budget of the Chicago Physical Plant.

1 This program relates to the purchase of products and services by State agencies from any qualified not-for-profit agency for the severely handicapped. T h e law which facilitated this program exempts State agencies from advertising and bidding requirements for the purchase of products or services from qualified not-for-profit agencies for the severely handicapped.