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372 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [April 18
to keep experimental animals (rats) in proper condition for experimentation.
Funds are available in an appropriation made by the Board of Trustees
on July 25, 1956.
I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the
Board be authorized to execute this contract.
On motion of Mr. Swain, this contract was awarded, and the
Comptroller and Secretary of the Board were authorized to execute the
same.
CONTRACT FOR REMODELING IN RESEARCH AND
EDUCATIONAL HOSPITALS
(16) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller
recommend award of a contract for $289,749 to Russell Mansfield, 1229 West
Glenlake Avenue, Chicago 40, Illinois, for remodeling in the Research and Educational
Hospitals, subject to conditions outlined below. The work will consist
of alterations of the second floor, converting the area into general and specialized
laboratories for the Hospitals, to centralize facilities which are now in
various parts of the building and adding utilities for the converted area. The
contract also covers necessary alterations in the equipment penthouse. The contract
includes:
Base bid, this is all remodeling necessary to bring the general
laboratories into one area $ 99 870
Alternate 2, to include hematology laboratory, add 14 372
Alternate 3, to include electrocardiogram laboratory, add 15 239
Alternate 4, to include blood batik and remodeling of penthouse 160 268
Total $289 749
Funds are available in the state appropriations for 1955-57 for capital improvements
and in matching federal funds to pay for the work included in the
base bid and in alternates two and three. Bid specifications provide that work is
to proceed only on written authorization from the University; this authorization
will be given for those provisions in the contract for which funds are available,
such notification to be given no later than September 1, 1957. Any part of the
work which has not been authorized in writing shall be deemed to have been
cancelled, and the contract will be reduced thereby.
The work covered by alternate four is contingent upon availability of funds
for remodeling in the state appropriations for 1957-59.
The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller
recommend award of the contract under these conditions, and that the Contractor
be authorized to proceed immediately with work covered by the base bid and
alternates two and three.
I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the
Board be authorized to execute the contract.
On motion of Mrs. Holt, this contract was awarded, and the
Comptroller and Secretary of the Board were authorized to execute
the same.
CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDING FOR
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH
(17) The Vice-President and Comptroller recommends award of a contract for
$43,958.00 to Ernest H. Grothe, Tolono, Illinois, for the construction of a
thirty-two foot by thirty-two foot frame laboratory building including all electrical,
plumbing, digging of well, sewage disposal system, roadway and parking
area in Tolono Township (south half of northwest one-quarter of Section 17.
Range 8), for the Radio Direction Finding Section of the Electrical Engineering
Research Laboratory. This building is needed for a research project under
a contract with the Office of Naval Research which has been authorized by the
Board, and will be constructed on land leased by the University with an option
to purchase.
I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the
Board be authorized to execute this contract.
On motion of Mr. Swain, this contract was awarded, and the Comp-