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28 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [July 25
PURCHASES
Purchases Authorized
(23) The following purchases were authorized by the President on the recommendation
of the Director of Purchases and the Comptroller.
Item
Birch wall cabinets: 280 36" x 30* and
70 24* x 30*, including installation in
Arbor Suites (this is the housing
project for undergraduate women students
leased from Northwood, Inc.,
Champaign)
434 36* x 76* innerspring mattresses for
Arbor Suites
Furnish and install standard gauge linoleum
in 168 rooms in Arbor Suites
Department
Housing Division
(Women's
Apartment
Project)
Housing Division
(Women's
Apartment
Project)
Housing Division
(Women's
Apartment
Project)
Vendor
Alexander Lumber
Company,
Champaign
Buckman Furniture
Company,
Spring Valley
Sacketts Furniture Store,
Champaign
On motion of Mr. Johnston, these purchases were approved.
Cost
$9 656 50
installed
7 725 20
f.o.b.
Urbana
7 798 28
delivered
and
installed
Purchases Recommended
The Director of Purchases has proposed and the Comptroller recommends the
following purchases. Unless otherwise specified, the purchase in each case is
recommended on the basis of lowest bid.
I concur.
Item
One recording spectrophotometer,
model 14, Cary type, with thermostatic
cell compartment and marker
pen, wave length range of 1850-2000
angstroms
Recondition and modernize one Cary
model 11 recording spectrophotometer,
to include new slide wires, balance
adjustment features, wave length
marker pen, thermostatic cell, and
general overhaul of existing equipment
(purchased in February, 1950,
for J7.990.56; estimated value of new
equipment, $14,000)
One electronic circuit panel for proportional
counter, including high voltage
power supply sealer-rate meter clock
panel, 60-cycle
One X-ray dinractometer, vertical operation
for forward and back reflection
regions, including Geiger counter and
other accessories
One XRDO5 X-ray diffraction unit 200-
250 volt, 60-cycle, tube position vertical
with provision for one tube and
with other accessories as specified
One No. 4700 DU spectrophotometer
with photomultiplier
One No. 9200 flame photometer attachment
1008 FP funnel 65 mm. polyethylene
100 FP funnel 3 s mm - polyethylene
200 T-6S thistle top with Saran tube
1000 FH-100 funnel holder 100 diameter
2,420 pounds reagent grade chloroform
3,168 pounds reagent grade ether
216 16 mm. films, selected subjects,
black and white and color
98 16 mm. films, selected subjects, black
and white and color, fifteen-year lease
372 16 mm. films, selected subjects,
black and white and color
Department
Chemistry and
Chemical
Engineering
Chemistry and
Chemical
Engineering
Mining and
Metallurgical
Engineering
Mining and
Metallurgical
Engineering
General Chemical
Stores
Vendor
Applied Physics
Corp.,
PaBadena, Calif.
Applied Physics
Corp.,
Pasadena, Calif.
North American
Philips Co.,
Chicago
General Electric Co.,
St. Louis, Mo.
Arthur S. LaPine & Co.,
Chicago
Cost
$15 225 00
f.o.b.
Urbana
3 285 00
f.o.b.
dena,
Calif.
8 513 00
f.o.b.
Mt.
Vernon,
N.Y.
3 888 00
f.o.b.
delivered
2 545 00
f.o.b.
delivered
General Chemic al
Stores
Mallinckrodt Chemical
Works,
St. Louis, Mo.
2 758 80
f.o.b.
Urbana
Visual Aids
Service
Young A merica Films, Inc., 27 480 00
New York, N.Y.
f.o.b.
(this firm is the only New
distributor of
York,
these films)
N.Y.
Visual Aids
Service
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Films, Inc.,
Wilmette (the
producer of these films)
32 045 00
f.o.b.
Wilmette