Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1994 [PAGE 650]

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Name of Agency Arc Ventures, Inc McAllister & Associates, Inc Payco American Corporation Van Ru Credit Corporation Total

B O A R D OF T R U S T E E S

[June 13

Estimated Fee $180 000 65 000 255 000 275 000 $775 000

Funds collected under these contracts will be deposited in the Hospital Income Fund. Funds will be available to pay the fee for their services from the proceeds collected. COM will award contracts for collection services to the following firms: Name of Agency Illinois Collection Services, Inc KCA Financial Services, Inc McAllister & Associates, Inc Merchants Credit Bureau Professional American Collectors Total Estimated Fee $ 80 000 35 000 35 000 35 000 35 000 $220 000

Funds collected under these contracts will be deposited in the COM Medical Service Plan Fund. Funds will be available to pay the fee for their services from the proceeds collected. The vice president for business and finance concurs. I recommend approval.

On motion of Dr. Gindorf, 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 1997 for Cleaning Services and Delegation of Authority to the Comptroller, Institute on Disability and Human Development, Chicago

(29) The chancellor at Chicago recommends the award of a contract for $124,274 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. The contract will begin July 1, 1996, and end June 30, 1997, with delegation of authority to the comptroller to renew the contract for two (2) additional one-year periods with fee adjustment to reflect the Consumer Price Index. 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.

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. The 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.