Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1958 [PAGE 442]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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and in a federal grant (U.S. Public Health Service RC-90-Medicine — Biological Chemistry Remodeling) and in the state appropriation for 1955-57 "For rehabilitation and remodeling and minor additions to existing buildings at Urbana-Champaign and at the Chicago Professional Colleges" for the second. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute these contracts.

On motion of Mrs. Watkins, these contracts were awarded, and the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board were authorized to execute the same.

CONTRACT FOR INSTALLATION OF PNEUMATIC TUBE SYSTEM IN THE RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL HOSPITALS (21) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend award of a contract for $3,200 to the Lamson Corporation, Chicago, for installation of a pneumatic tube system in the Hospital Laboratories of the Research and Educational Hospitals. The work will consist of installation of a tube station in the Hospital Laboratories and connection of this station to the central dispatching system of the medical records room. It is a part of the remodeling of the Hospital Laboratories nowbeing done under the federal matching funds program for improvement and expansion of health research facilities. Funds are available in a federal grant (U.S. Public Health Service RC-87Remodeling Research and Educational Hospitals Laboratories) and in the state appropriation for 1955-57 "for rehabilitation and remodeling and minor additions to existing buildings at Urbana-Champaign and at the Chicago Professional Colleges." I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract.

On motion of Mrs. Holt, this contract was awarded, and the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board were authorized to execute the same.

CONTRACTS FOR COAL PURCHASES FOR ABBOTT P O W E R PLANT

(22) The Director of Purchases, the Vice-President and Comptroller, and the Director of the Physical Plant recommend award of the following contracts for 130,000 tons of coal screenings to be delivered to the Abbott Power Plant during the period July 1, 1957, through June 30, 1959: F.O.B. Mine Freight Total Cost United Electric Coal Company, Chicago 30,000 tons @ S4.50 Si35 000 S38 400 Si73 400 Bell and Zoller Coal Company, Terre Haute, Indiana 22,000 tons @ S4.85 106 700 28 160 134 860 Republic Coal and Coke Company, Peoria 78,000 tons @, S4.75 370 500 99 840 470 340 Sealed bids on uniform specifications were opened on May 24, 1957- Invitations were sent to twenty-four producers and sales agencies and advertisements were published in three daily papers. The bids are evaluated in the terms of the number of British Thermal Units purchased for one cent based on guaranteed analysis. A continuous check is maintained to insure compliance with specifications. The United Electric Coal Company, Bell and Zoller Coal Company, and Republic Coal and Coke Company are the lowest bidders. It is advantageous to have contracts with three sources of supply to be assured of delivery of coal at all times. A two-year contract is being recommended to enable the mines better to plan future operations, development, and expansion, and to assure the L T niversity of a continued reliable source of supply. The prices quoted are based on present wage scales and are subject to increase or decrease in event that wage contracts now in effect are changed. Any such change will affect the price to the extent that production costs are increased or