Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1986 [PAGE 88]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Base Bid $ 15 900 84 512 $239 806

Division V — Electrical Nu-Way Contracting Corp., Chicago Division VI — Laboratory Furniture Hamilton Industries, Inc., Two Rivers, Wisconsin Total

Funds are available in the Hospital Income Fund. In order to facilitate efficient processing of testing procedures, it is desirable to relocate the laboratory to the second floor of the Clinical Sciences Building. The new facility will occupy 3,610 square feet of space directly above a collection facility on the first floor. T h e work will include the repair of existing walls and the installation of new partitions, new lighting, etc. as well as new laboratory furniture. A schedule of the bids received has been filed with the secretary of the board for record. O n m o t i o n of M r s . D a y , t h e s e c o n t r a c t s w e r e a w a r d e d b y t h e followi n g v o t e : Aye, M r s . D a y , D r . D o n o g h u e , M r . F o r s y t h , M r . H a h n , M r . H o w a r d , M r . Logan, M r . M a d d e n , Mrs. Shepherd, M r . Stone; no, n o n e ; absent, Governor T h o m p s o n . ( T h e student advisory vote w a s : Aye, M r . L a m m , M r . P i t t m a n ; no, none.)

Contracts for Remodeling, Center for Genetics, Chicago

(34) On August 22, 1984, bids were received for remodeling a vacant area of the College of Medicine East Tower to accommodate laboratories and offices for the Center for Genetics, Chicago campus. An apparent low bid of $33,800 for electrical work was received from Mid America Electric Co., Inc., Palatine. T h e firm has notified the University of an error in its bid and has requested permission to withdraw it since, due to the error, it could not fulfill its contractual obligation without suffering economic hardship. The Physical Plant Department at Chicago and the project engineering consultant have determined that there is demonstrable evidence that the bidder made a bona fide error in the preparation of the bid and that the error will result in a substantial loss to the bidder, and have recommended that the bidder be allowed to withdraw its bid. T h e university counsel has advised that, under these circumstances, the University's regulations allow the University to permit the withdrawal. Accordingly, the president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends the award of the following contracts, the award in each case being to the low bidder. Division I — General Poulos Bros. Construction Co., Inc., Chicago Division II — Plumbing Ewing-Doherty Mechanical, Inc., Bensenville Division III — Mechanical and Process Piping G. F. Connelly Co., Inc., Chicago Division IV — Ventilation Illinois Mechanical Contractors, Inc., Franklin Park Division V — Electrical Bernard N. Lane Company, acting through its Monarch Electric Construction Co., Chicago Base Bid $ 81 550 24 980 51 624 60 934

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