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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944
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1943] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 453 REPORT OF BIDS AND AWARDS FOR MINOR CONSTRUCTION (25) T h e Comptroller reports the following awards of contracts for minor construction work approved by him. Funds for this work had previously been appropriated by the Board or were provided in the budget for 1942-1943. Emergency action was necessary in order to encumber these funds before the end of the biennium of 1941-1943: 1. Plumbing work in first floor of Sanitary Engineering Building. Bids received: The Carson-Payson Company $ I 250 00 Reliable Plumbing and Heating Company 1 098 00 Contract awarded to lowest bidder, Reliable Plumbing and Heating Company. The plumbing and heating work arranged for under this contract is of a limited nature, and a supplementary contract was later executed. 2. Heating work above the floor level of the Sanitary Engineering Building. The Reliable Plumbing and Heating Company's bid of $2,742 was the only one received. Original contract (plumbing, see 1 above), dated June 22, 1943 $ 1 098 00 Other additions 156 50 Contract change order No. 3 (present order) 2 742 00 Total $ 3 996 50 3. Incidental work to complete the Sanitary Engineering Laboratorv as follows: Wreck west building of Old Sewage Research Laboratory except original office unit; cover with new roll roofing; protect exterior walls so as to render building weathertight $ 850 00 Move and install laboratory equipment in new building as directed 850 00 Provide concrete sidewalk from west entrance to cinder drive. Do finished grading around building and plant grass seed 515 00 Provide interior painting as directed 450 00 Total estimated cost $ 2 665 00 Original contract dated January 25, 1943 $31 500 00 Other additions 1 352 84 Contract change order No. 6 (present order) 2 665 00 Total $35 517 84 Orders for this supplementary work were placed with King and Petry, Champaign, general contractors, who had the original contract. Their proposal on a cost basis was $2,665. 4. Insulation of attics in Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Transportation Building, Natural History Building, Altgeld Hall, McKinley Hospital, and the New Agriculture Building. Only one bid was received, from the H o m e Insulation Company, at a cost of $7,925.08. This bid has been checked with previous estimates and is in line with the cost of such work. Contract awarded to Home Insulation Company. 5. Miscellaneous campus walk improvements. Bids received: General Paving Company $ 3 690 King and Petry 4 750 Corkery and Siems 4 871 Contract awarded to General Paving Company on their bid of $3,690. 6. Minor alterations in various buildings. Bids were received from E. N. DeAtley, King and Petry, and Corkery and Siems on proposals 1 to 8 inclusive of the bid schedule. T h e contract accepting proposals 1, 7, and 8 was awarded to E. N. DeAtley, the lowest bidder, covering the following work:
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