Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1942 [PAGE 284]

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ELEVATOR A N D DUMB-WAITER INSTALLATION, CHICAGO U N I O N BUILDING (8) T h e Director of the Physical Plant Department submits the following schedule of bids received on the elevator and dumb-waiter installations in the Chicago Union Building. H e recommends award of the contract to the Trimon Elevator Company, Inc., the lowest bidder on the basis of its Bid No. 2 in the amount of $2,024, covering the furnishing and installation of one dumb-waiter complete, and furnishing and installation of elevator entrance units only, for the elevator shaft. T h e installation of the elevator complete at this time is not being recommended, due to the building budget situation, but this can be completed later at no additional expense.

SCHEDULE OF B I D S FOR E L E V A T O R S — U N I O N BUILDING, CHICAGO

Bidders Haughton Elevator Co Montgomery Elevator Co Otis Elevator Co Trimon Elevator Co., Inc Westinghouse Electric Elevator Co

Base Bid Alternate Alternate $1 $1 $2 $5 190 $ 566 J i 150 5 558 490 779 1 707* 4 079* 5 574 4 292 517 560 5 621

Base Bid $2 $2 440 2 843 2 704 2 024 2 561

Base Bid $1—For the installation of one elevator and one dumb-waiter complete, except that the owner's present machine is to be used. Alternate fi—In the event that a new machine is furnished as specified, add to Base Bid #1. Alternate %2—In the event that the elevator operation is changed from constant-pressure pushbutton operation to automatic push-button operation and automatic leveling, add to Base Bid fi. Base Bid #2—For the furnishing and installing oi one dumb-waiter complete and furnishing and installing of elevator entrance units including doors as specified without interlocks. •Bids disqualified because not based on specifications.

PURCHASES A U T H O R I Z E D (9) A report of the following purchases authorized by the President of the University as emergencies, in accordance with the University Statutes: 1. Sulphite bond paper: 16000 Reams 8^6 x 107/&—16# No. 4 Mimeograph Bond 500 Reams H'/i x 11—16# No. 4 Bond 432 Reams Canary and White No. 4 Bond totaling approximately two carloads, from the Dwight Bros. Paper Company, Chicago, the lowest bidder, at a total cost of $4,959.30, f.o.b. Urbana. This order is being placed for the Agricultural and H o m e Economics Extension Service and represents approximately a six months' supply. 2. Namelo Book Paper, 7 0 # , 1,560 reams, 2 5 x 3 8 (54.6 tons) for Agricultural and H o m e Economics Extension Service publications, from Dwight Bros. Paper Company, Chicago, the lowest bidder, at a net price of $7,506.13. PURCHASES RECOMMENDED (10) A recommendation that the following purchases be authorized: 1. Cass County Soil Map, 7,500 copies, from A. Hoen and Company, Baltimore, Maryland, the lowest bidder, at a price of $1,192.00, f.o.b. Urbana. These maps are for the Soil Survey Reports published by the Agricultural Experiment Station. 2. P y r e x laboratory glassware: Schaar and Company, Chicago, 149 cases $1 781 96 Chicago Apparatus Company, Chicago, 104 cases 1 786 66 P y r e x laboratory glassware is sold only through jobbers at prices fixed by the manufacturer, the lowest price applying to orders for lots of 100 or more cases. T h e order is being divided between the above companies because of the service they can render. 3. One lot fabricated steel pipe supports and miscellaneous iron work for the P o w e r Plant and Tunnel, from the Nechin Iron W o r k s , Chicago, the lowest bidder, at a price of $1,568.16, f.o.b. Urbana.