Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1946 [PAGE 1117]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[May 29

T h e Committee authorized the award of the contract to Keith Gordon, the lowest bidder, accepting Alternates A and B, and not accepting Alternate C, at a total price of $12,052. Equipment for Addition to Abbott P o w e r Plant T h e Executive Committee received bids on equipment for the Abbott Power Plant addition and has authorized awards of contracts as follows: 1. Boiler feed pump, from the Pennsylvania P u m p and Compressor Company, at $2,640, f.o.b. site. This is the lowest bid. 2. Deaerating heater, from the Wbrthington Pump & Machinery Corporation, at $8,723, f.o.b. site. This is the lowest bid. 3. Closed feedwater heater, from the American Locomotive Company, at $4,029, f.o.b. site. This is the lowest bid. 4. T w o automatic coal scales, from the Richardson Scale Company, at $2,232, f.o.b. site. This is the lowest bid. 5. Air compressor and receiver, from the Pennsylvania P u m p & Compressor Company, at $4,476, f.o.b. site. This is the lowest bid based on specifications. T h e bid on the air compressor from Ingersoll-Rand Company was low on this item. However, their bid was not based on a cross compound unit with intercooler as specified on the bid documents, and, therefore, should be rejected. 6. Auxiliary power transformer, from the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, at $5,181.90, f.o.b. site. This is the lowest bid. 7. Indoor 4160 volt metal-clad switchgear, from the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, at base bid of $57,750 plus spare parts included in specifications at $429.60; total, $58,179.60. This is the only bid received for this item of equipment. Bid documents were also submitted to the General Electric Company and the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. T h e bid from the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company is based on equipment that is identical to that installed in the Abbott Power Plant. T h e above bids recommended for approval aggregate $85,461.50. All bids included price adjustment clauses providing for escalation of bids as a result of increases in labor and material costs. These expenditures are payable from the assignment of $122,050 from the item for contingencies in the State appropriation for buildings for 1945-1947. Improvement of Airport Road T h e road connecting United States Highway 45 with the University of Illinois Airport is a township road which must be improved and surfaced to provide ready access to the Airport in all kinds of weather. At present it is a dirt and gravel road which is unsatisfactory at best and in rainy weather it becomes almost impassable for motor vehicles. Since the road is of no service to other landowners than the University, Tolono Township would not be justified in spending funds on improving it. T h e Advisory Board on Aeronautics at a recent meeting recommended that the University improve this connecting road immediately. Bids have been secured on the following improvement: Beginning at United States Highway 45 and extending to the Airport, a distance of 4,465 lineal feet, grading of surface, shoulders, and ditches to lines and grades, as specified by the Supervising Engineer for Construction of the University of Illinois Airport, installation of three catch basins and 88 feet of reinforced tile; construction of a six-inch compacted crushed stone road 20 feet wide with an asphalt and chipped stone surface. Bids on this construction were secured as follows: Champaign Asphalt Company Grading and crushed stone construction $9 600 Asphalt and chipped stone 1 500 Total $11 100 General Paving Company, Champaign Grading and construction of crushed stone road $10 500 N o bid submitted on asphalt surfacing.