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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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REVOCATION OF ASSIGNMENT OF CONTRACT A N D T H E AWARD OF A CONTRACT FOR VENTILATION WORK IN CONNECTION WITH REMODELING IN COLLEGE OF PHARMACY BUILDING, MEDICAL CENTER (29) On March 19, 1969, the Board of Trustees awarded a contract for ventilation work in connection with selected remodeling for the College of Pharmacy (East Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building) at the Medical Center campus to H . S. Kaiser Company, Elk Grove, in the amount of $11,500, and authorized the transfer of this contract to the general contractor, Mutual Contracting Company, Chicago. H. S. Kaiser Company failed to supply a performance bond, ceased operations, and made an assignment for the benefit of creditors before commencing the ventilating work and before transfer of the contract to the general contractor. The Board of Trustees on May 21, 1969, consented to the assignment of the original H . S. Kaiser Company ventilating contract to the E. B. Rovin Co., Chicago, as requested by the assignee for the benefit of creditors. Subsequently, the E. B. Rovin Co. also failed to furnish the required performance bond. The ventilation portion of this project was then rebid on June 24, 1969, with the following bids received: A. C. Company, Chicago $12 260 Jamar-Olmen Company, Elk Grove 12 910 Narowetz Heating and Ventilating Company, Chicago 13 773 Admiral Heating and Ventilating, Inc., Hillside 13 991 Accordingly, the President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends award of a contract for ventilation work in connection with remodeling in the College of Pharmacy Building to the new low bidder, A. C. Company, in the amount of $12,260. It is further recommended that this contract be assigned to the general contractor, Mutual Contracting Company, whose price includes the supervision of the contract for ventilation work. Since the current low bid of $12,260 is $760 higher than the original H. S. Kaiser Company contract in the amount of $11,500, it is also recommended that the H . S. Kaiser Company bid deposit check for $350 be retained as liquidated damages. Funds for this work are available in state capital appropriations to the University for 1967-69 and have been released by the Governor. O n m o t i o n of M r . G r i m e s , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d b y

the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Grimes, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Jones, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain; no, none; absent, Governor Ogilvie, Mr. Page, Mr. Steger.

CONTRACTS FOR REMODELING IN GENERAL HOSPITAL BUILDING, MEDICAL CENTER (30) The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends the award of the following contracts for remodeling the Newborn Nursery, South Wing, General Hospital Building at the Medical Center campus, the award in each case being to the low bidder : General — Simpson Construction Co., Chicago $43 890 Plumbing — Peter H . Smith Company, Chicago 6 398 Heating, Process Piping and Temperature Control — F. E. Moran, Inc., Chicago 6 970 Ventilation — Narowetz Heating and Ventilating Company, Melrose Park 7 970 Electrical — Hyre Electric Company, Chicago 13 300 Laboratory Equipment — N i l Laboratory Furniture, Inc., Hicksville, New York 7 513 Total $86 041 It is further recommended that all contracts other than the contract for the general work be assigned to the contractor for the general work, making the total of his contract $86,041, and that an agreement be entered into with the Simpson Construction Co. for assignment of the other contracts. The amount bid by Simpson Construction Co. for the supervision of the other contracts assigned to the general contractor is included in the base bid for general work. Funds for this work are available from hospital income.