Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1928 [PAGE 332]

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1927]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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CHAIRS F O R L E C T U R E R O O M S The following bids were received on opera type tablet arm chairs, set in place: American Seating Co. (Chicago) $4 65 ea. E. H. Stafford Mfg. Co. (Chicago) 5 00 ea. A. H. Andrews Co. (Chicago) 5 08 ea. Heywood-Wakefield Co. (Chicago) 5 25 ea. T h e contract for 2 8 7 chairs for the Architectural Building and 245 for the A r m o r y Addition w a s awarded to the American Seating C o . (Architecture—$1,334.55; A r m o r y Addition, $1,139.25). ELEVATOR FOR LIBRARY The following bids were received on the elevator for the Library Addition N o . 2: Warner Elevator Company (Cincinnati) $$ 800 Otis Elevator Company (Chicago) 5 84.5 Montgomery Elevator Company (Moline) 6 950 Because this elevator is to be used largely for the moving of book trucks from floor to floor, it seems especially desirable to provide a floor-leveling device which would insure the elevator always stopping exactly at the floor level. The Otis Elevator Company controls the patents on this device and no other elevator company can furnish it. The additional cost for the device is $1,500. As the Otis Elevator Company has a local inspector and the Warner Elevator Company is located in Cincinnati, it is to our advantage to use the Otis Elevator and the difference of $4.5 on the original bids is not enough to justify our placing the award with the Warner Elevator Company. T h e contract w a s awarded to the Otis Elevator C o m p a n y o n the basis of their original bid of $5,845 plus $1,500 for the micro-drive, or self-leveling equipment, less $ 6 0 credit for waiving the bond. LIGHTING FIXTURES FOR ARCHITECTURAL BUILDING Bids were received o n the special design lighting fixtures for the Architectural Building. The firms bidding were given a general idea of types offixturesdesired, and in accordance therewith each firm submitted designs indicating a conception of what would be most appropriate for the building. The bids are, therefore, not on a comparable basis without making allowance for the relative merits of the different designs, some of which are far more elaborate than others. The bids on this basis were as follows: (All bids are on the basis of 33 fixtures.) Walter G. Warren Co. (Chicago) $1 752 50 F O B Chicago Hughes-Krabbe Co. (Champaign) 1 519 00 F O B Champaign Edw. F. Caldwell & Co. (New York) 1 840 00 F O B N e w York Victor S. Pearlman & Co. (Chicago) 2 192 50 Ipfyo r-Lwith an alternate proposal of 1 892 50 / ° A comparison of the designs clearly indicated that the designs submitted by the Edward F. Caldwell Company were the most appropriate for the building.