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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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for a period of up to five years (the University may exercise the option to acquire paid-up licenses for specified payments at any point in the five-year p e r i o d ) ; and (3) maintenance of the system software during the license period. In order to make the software packages operational, supporting equipment (primarily terminals) must be interconnected with the main computer at the Administrative Computer Center ( A C C ) . Therefore, the vice president for administration, with the concurrence of the chancellor at the Medical Center, recommends that a contract be entered into with Technicon for the lease of 212 online video display terminals, 140 printers attached to the terminals, 2 lab interface terminals and associated equipment. The equipment to be leased will be delivered to the University on the timetable shown in Table 1 attached. The estimated annual lease and maintenance costs are displayed in Table II attached, with the cost for FY 1980 estimated to be $302,600. The video display terminals, printers, and lab interface terminals will be leased from the Technicon Corporation with the option to purchase at any point during the lease period with 50 percent of all lease payments to be applied toward the purchase of the equipment, up to 50 percent of the purchase price. The vice president for administration recommends further that the authority granted to the comptroller at the March 2 1 , 1979, board meeting regarding the software contract with Technicon Medical Information Systems Corporation for the Medical Information Systems (MIS) be modified to permit the execution of a single contract with Technicon (for the M I S components approved in March and the foregoing equipment components). The contract will provide for a lease with the option to acquire terms for the software under the financial conditions approved by the board; will provide for the right of assignment of the contract by the University to a third party; and will provide for a 60-month lease commitment, with the option to purchase, for each item of equipment covered by the contract, subject to: (1) the availability of funds in the Hospital Income Fund in each fiscal year in amounts sufficient to make the payments which become due in that fiscal year; and (2) the condition that the software packages will have been made operational by Technicon to the satisfaction of the University on the University's 370/168 computer by the time of the implementation of the pilot nursing station (presently estimated to be in April 1980). If the modification of the Technicon system for use on the University's 370/168 computer is not successful by the time of the implementation of the pilot nursing station, the University will have the option to cancel the contract with Technicon. Funds for FY 1980 and for future years are expected to be available in the Hospital Income Fund, and the contract will be conditioned upon the availability of the same in each fiscal year. I recommend approval. (Tables I and II are filed with the secretary of the board for record.)

T h e student advisory vote was: Aye, Miss Kooper, Mr. Sobotka, Mr. Watson; no, none. O n motion of Mr. Neal, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Dr. Donoghue, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. H a h n , Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Stone, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Governor Thompson. SECRETARY'S REPORT T h e secretary presented for record appointments to the faculty and changes of status made by the president, resignations, leaves of absence, and retirements. A copy of the report is filed with the secretary.