Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1986 [PAGE 42]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Base Bid $ 49 325 14 965 7 550 34 000 39 746 40 848 $186 434

Division I — General O.C.S. Construction Co., Bridgeview Division II — Plumbing Ewing-Doherty Mechanical, Inc., Bensenville Division III — Heating and Piping Preferred Piping, Inc., Chicago Division IV — Ventilation Allied Mechanical Industries, Inc., Chicago Division V — Electrical Shaw Electric Co., Chicago Division VI — Laboratory Equipment Hamilton Industries, Inc., Two Rivers, Wisconsin Total

Funds for this "Renovation for Excellence" project have been included in the appropriation bill of the General Assembly to meet the ordinary and contingent expenses of the University for Fiscal Year 1985 and will be included in the Physical Plant Department operating budget authorization request for the Chicago campus for FY 1985, to be submitted to the Board of Trustees. This contract is subject to the availability of these funds. To accommodate advanced research, 7,850 square feet will be remodeled or upgraded. T h e work includes relocating and upgrading equipment, constructing office space, converting storage areas into wet laboratories, and purchasing and installing new laboratory furniture and fume hoods. A schedule of the bids received has been filed with the secretary of the board for record.

On motion of Mr. Madden, these contracts were awarded by the following vote: Aye, Mrs. Day, Dr. Donoghue, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Logan, Mr. Madden, Mr. Stone; no, none; absent, Mrs. Shepherd, Governor Thompson. (The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Lamm, Mr. Pittman; no, none.)

Contract, Cable Installation, Academic Computer Network, Chicago

(34) The president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends the award of a contract for $196,800 to Fries Walters Co., Hillside, the low bidder on its base bid, for the installation of interior cable in fourteen buildings at the Health Sciences Center, Chicago campus, to provide access to the Academic Computer Network. This project is a continuation of the Academic Data Network System, the first phase of which was approved by the Board of Trustees in 1982. The computing equipment for the Chicago campus is in place. T h e cabling at the University Center is basically completed, and the system is operational. This contract will provide for interior cabling to approximately 50 percent of the buildings at the Health Sciences Center. The exterior cabling is already in place. Funds have been included in the appropriation bill of the General Assembly to meet the ordinary and contingent expenses of the University for Fiscal Year 1985. T h e funds will be included in the Physical Plant Department operating budget authorization request for the Chicago campus for FY 1985, to be submitted to the Board of Trustees. This contract is subject to the availability of these funds.