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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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REQUEST TO ILLINOIS BUILDING AUTHORITY FOR SITE DEVELOPMENT AND LANDSCAPING, PSYCHOLOGY LABORATORY, URBANA (16) The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the Illinois Building Authority be requested to award a contract in the amount of $34,409.62 to Wandell's Twin City Landscape Service, Inc., Urbana, the low base bidder, for site development and landscaping for the Psychology Laboratory at the Urbana-Champaign campus. Funds are available in the project budget. O n m o t i o n of M r . S w a i n , 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 t h e following v o t e : A y e , M r . Clement, M r . H u g h e s , M r . S w a i n ; no, n o n e ; absent, n o n e . CHANGE ORDER COMPUTER LEASE/ACQUISITION (17) The University Office of Administrative Data Processing has reviewed the increased requirements for computing equipment at the Chicago Circle campus. It has been concluded by appropriate staff personnel and approved by the administrative officers concerned that the leased 360/50 C P U system soon to be released by the Computer Science Laboratory in Urbana, with certain modifications, can be advantageously used at the Chicago Circle campus since it will be operationally compatible with other administrative data processing equipment on the UrbanaChampaign campus. The Urbana-Champaign Department of Computer Science is in the final stages of changes in computer equipment (approved by the Board of Trustees May 21, 1969) which will cause the removal of the IBM System 360 Model 50 Central Processing Unit from University lease agreements with IBM dated February 13, 1964. The International Business Machines Corporation has proposed a change order in our existing agreement for I B M machine service (lease agreement) which would permit the University to transfer the 360/50 C P U system being removed from the Urbana-Champaign campus to the Chicago Circle campus. Based upon an anticipated transfer date of April 1, 1970, the University could acquire title to the 360/50 C P U at a total cost of $340,798.57 with payments spread over a five-year period, said payments to be subject to the availability of funds in accordance with the following schedule: Fiscal Year 1970 $ 14 832 07 Fiscal Year 1971 77 470 26 Fiscal Year 1972 74 350 65 Fiscal Year 1973 71 231 04 Fiscal Year 1974 68 111 43 Fiscal Year 1975 34 803 12 $340 798 57 In addition, the University will pay $27,060.00 for maintenance over the fiveyear period. The net result of this change order will be to effect a total savings over the five-year period of $258,436.43, provide for prompt conversion and installation at the Chicago Circle campus and at the end of said period title of the equipment will be vested in the University. Funds are available in the regular operating budget generated from charges to those departments using the computer. The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the Board authorize the Comptroller and Secretary of the Board of Trustees to accept the proposal of the I B M Corporation as outlined above and to execute such contracts, change orders, or other appropriate documents as may be necessary to acquire title of the Central Processing Unit in accordance with the plan herein described.

On motion of Mr. Clement, the Committee recommended that the Board approve these changes at the annual meeting of the Board.