Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1970 [PAGE 207]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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CONTRACTS FOR REMODELING IN FIRST UNIT DENTISTRYMEDICINE-PHARMACY BUILDING MEDICAL CENTER (16) T h e President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends the award of the following contracts for remodeling in the Department of Anatomy on the fifth floor of the first unit, Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building, at the Medical Center campus, the award in each case being to the low base bidder. General — Mutual Contracting Company, Chicago $28 2 % Plumbing — Peter H . Smith Company, Chicago 5 240 Heating, Air Conditioning and Process Piping — C. W . Johnson, Inc., Chicago 13 210 Ventilation — A C Company, Chicago 2 720 Electrical — Midwest Interstate Electrical Construction Company, Chicago 11 663 Total $61 129 It is further recommended that all contracts other than the contract for general work be assigned to the general contractor, making the total contract price $61,129, and that an agreement be entered into with Mutual Contracting Company for the assignment of these other contracts. The amount bid by that company for the supervision of other contracts assigned to the general contractor is included in the contract price. The work consists of revision of partitions, air conditioning, new laboratory equipment, new lighting, new resilient flooring, and painting. Funds for this work are available in state capital appropriations to the University for 1967-69 and have been released by the Governor. Submitted herewith is a schedule of bids received, a copy of which is being filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. O n m o t i o n of M r . G r i m e s , 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 following vote: Aye, M r . Clement, Mr. Grimes, M r . H a h n , M r . H u g h e s , Mr. Page, M r . Pogue, M r . Swain, M r . Williamson; no, n o n e ; absent, Mr. Jones, Governor Shapiro, Dr. Weatherly. CONTRACT FOR ORCHARD APARTMENTS LIGHTNING PROTECTION. URBANA (17) T h e President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends award of a contract to Security Manufacturing & Contracting Company, Burlington, Wisconsin, the low bidder, for the sum of $33,895, for lightning protection for the Orchard Apartments, Urbana-Champaign campus. Funds are available in the maintenance reserves of the Housing Division. Submitted herewith is a report from the Campus Architect, including a schedule of bids received, a copy of which is being filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. O n m o t i o n of M r . G r i m e s , t h i s c o n t r a c t w a s a w a r d e d b y t h e following vote: Aye, M r . Clement, M r . Grimes, M r . H a h n , M r . Hughes, Mr. Page, M r . Pogue, M r . Swain, M r . Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Jones, Governor Shapiro, Dr. Weatherly. REQUEST TO T H E ILLINOIS BUILDING AUTHORITY TO CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF T H E FOREIGN LANGUAGES BUILDING, URBANA (18) On November 22, 1968, the Illinois Building Authority received bids for construction of the Foreign Languages Building at the Urbana-Champaign campus. This project is one that the Board at its meeting on July 26, 1967, requested the Illinois Building Authority to provide. The plans and specifications comply with the requirements of the Facilities for the Handicapped Act. T h e Authority will finance the construction of the building and lease the facility to the Univer-