 | Board of Visitors minutes July 19, 1939 |  |
MOUNTAIN LAKE BIOLOGICAL STATION—TEACHING LABORATORY:
Bids for the construction of a Research Teaching Laboratory at the Mountain
Lake Biological Station, Mountain Lake, Virginia, were received in the Office of the
President on Thursday, July 6. These bids were opened in the President's Office, by
Mr. Rinehart, Chariman of the New Buildings Committee of the Board, the President of
the University, and the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds.
Messrs. T. E. Coffey and Company, Boxley Building, Roanoke, were found to
be the low bidders with a base bid of $48,700. This amount slightly exceeded the total
available for expediture. After accepting certain alternates provided in the proposal,
namely, alternates 2, 5, 6, 8 and 9, the net value of the contract was reduced to
$46,680. This being the low bid, and the total sum being within the amount of money
available, it is recommended by the Chairman of the New Buildings Committee that this
contract in the sum of $46,680 be awarded to T. E. Coffey and Company, of Roanoke,
Virginia. It was thereupon
RESOLVED, by the Executive Committee of the Rector and Visitors of the
University of Virginia that the contract for construction of the Research Teaching
Laboratory at the Mountain Lake Biological Station, Mountain Lake, Virginia, be and
same is hereby awarded to T. E. Coffey and Company, Boxley Building, Roanoke,
Virginia, in the net value of $46,680.
RESOLVED, FURTHER, that the President be and he is hereby authorized
and directed to execute the contract on behalf of The Rector and Visitors of the
University of Virginia with T. E. Coffey and Company for the construction of this
building, in the sum of $46,680.
| Board of Visitors minutes July 19, 1939 | |