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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

CONTRACTS FOR REMODELING IN ILLINOIS SURGICAL INSTITUTE. MEDICAL CENTER

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(16) The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends award of the following contracts for work to remodel and expand the brace shop in the Illinois Surgical Institute at the Medical Center campus, the award in each case being to the low bidder on the base contract work: General Work Base Bid Wm. J. Scown Building Co., Chicago $10 655 Plumbing Work G. F. Connelly Co., Inc., Chicago 1 585 Compressed Air, Air Conditioning Work Systems Service Unlimited, Inc., Chicago 19 060 Ventilating Work Systems Service Unlimited, Inc., Chicago 2 3% Electrical Work G & M Electrical Contractors Co., Chicago 7 449 Total $41 145 It is further recommended that all contracts other than the contract for general work be assigned to the contractor for general work, making the total of this contract $41,145 arid that an agreement be entered into with Wm. J. Scown Building Co. for the assignment of the other contracts. The fee for this assignment is included in the base bid for the general work. Funds for this work are available in the Hospital Income Account. A schedule of the bids received has been filed with the Secretary of the Board for record.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, these contracts were awarded by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mr. Steger, Mr. Swain; no, none; absent, Dr. Bakalis, Mr. Forsyth, Governor Walker.

REMODELING FOR ROCKFORD SCHOOL O F MEDICINE

(17) The Capital Development Board received bids on March 18, 1974, for six divisions of work for the Phase IV remodeling project for the Rockford School of Medicine. This project is funded by Capital Development Bond Funds in the amount of $638,380 appropriated to that Board for FY1974. Because the planning and preparation of contract documents for this project was carried out by the University's in-house architectural and engineering staff, the staff of the Capital Development Board lias requested the University to approve the award of contracts for the project. Planning funds were appropriated to the University from general revenue in FY 1973. Two bids were received on two divisions of work and only one bid was received on four divisions of work. Subsequent to the receipt of bids, the staffs of the Capital Development Board and the University conferred with firms that originally indicated interest in this project but did not bid, as well as several architectural and engineering^ firms. It appears that the current volume of work in the mechanical and electrical trades contributed to the lack of bids. Investigation also revealed that without exception the apparent low bidders have excellent reputations for integrity and workmanship. The staffs of the Capital Development Board and the University are of the opinion that the bids are reasonahlc under the conditions and that it would not be advantageous to rebid the four divisions of work for which only one bid was received. The contract documents called for a base bid and four additive alternates. On the basis of the bids received, funds are available to award contracts to the low base bid plus Additive Alternate No. I1 and still provide an adequate contingency for the project.

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For converting the Misting heating system from steam to a bydronic system.