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442 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [June 20
PURCHASES
Purchases Authorized
(26) The following purchases were authorized by the President's Office on the
recommendation of the Director of Purchases and the Vice-President and Comp­
troller.
Item
Four s-horsepower packaged air-conditioning
units with remote air cooled
condensers, 208-volt, 3-phase, 60-cycle
Window air conditioners:
Nine 1-horsepower
Nine 1 ^-horsepower
Two 2-horsepower
Department
Physical Plant
Physical Plant
Vendor
Automatic Comfort
Engineering Supply Co.,
Aurora
Klaus Radio & Electric
Co., Peoria
Cost
$4 528 00
f.o.b.
delivered
4 4i6 40
f.o.b.
Peoria
The following purchase was approved by the Vice-President and Provost, acting
for the President, pursuant to authorization by the Board of Trustees to act on
recommendations for purchases under International Cooperation Administration
Contracts. The purchase will be from funds supplied by the International Cooperation
Administration under its contract with the University for educational services
to institutions of higher education in India.
Item
One rotary dryer, direct heat type, 200°
to 1400 0 F, size 18 in. diameter x 11 ft.
long, complete with heaters, blowers,
and electric drive motors, for 220volts
50-cycle operation
Department
International
Cooperation
Administration
Contracts
Vendor
Denver Equipment Co.,
Denver, Colo.
On motion of Mrs. Watkins, these purchases were approved.
Cost
$5 874 00
f.a.s.
Port
Purchases Recommended
The Director of Purchases has proposed and the Vice-President and Comptroller
recommends the following purchases. Unless otherwise specified, the purchase in
each case is recommended on the basis of lowest bid.
I concur.
Item
,800 cases (approximately) Pyrex
(borosilicate) laboratory glassware to
be ordered and delivered as required
for the year ending June 30, 1958
One Remington-Rand type 1125 magnetic
storage drum
Sixty part No. 16501 type 200D1 read/
write heads for the drum
Eighteen type 6810 RCA photomultiplier
tubes
Fabrication of one precision turntable
for Varian magnet
One six-channel recording oscillograph
to be used in the teaching and research
of the relation of functions of
the heart and blood vessels and experimental
hypertensions
Department
General Chemical
Stores
Digital Computer
Laboratory
Physics
Physics
Physiology
(Medicine)
Vendor
A. S. LaPine & Co.,
Chicago (200 cases)
E. H. Sargent & Co.,
Chicago (200 cases)
Schaar & Co., Chicago
(200 cases)
Wilkens-Anderson Co.,
Chicago (200 cases)
Central Scientific Co.,
Chicago (200 cases)
Chicago Apparatus Co.,
Chicago (200 cases)
Fisher Scientific Co.,
Chicago (200 cases)
American Hospital Supply,
Evanston (100 cases)
A. Daigger & Co.,
Chicago (100 cases)
W. M. Welch Manufacturing
Co., Chicago
(100 cases)
Rascher & Betzold,
Chicago (100 cases)
Total, f.o.b. Urbana
Remington-Rand Univac
Division, Sperry Rand
Corp., St. Paul, Minn.
Newark Electric Co.,
Chicago
Burns Machine Co.,
Ottawa
Grass Instrument Co.,
Quincy, Mass.
Cost
$6 000 00
6 000 00
6 000 00
6 000 00
6 000 00
6 000 00
6 000 00
3 000 00
(54 000 00)
10 120 00
f.o.b.
St. Paul,
Minn.
3 239 10
f.o.b.
delivered
2 600 00
f.o.b.
Urbana
3 116 00
f.o.b.
Quincy,
Mass.