The Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees today at its regularly scheduled meeting on the Carbondale campus approved renovations of the Information Technology Services (ITS) computer room in Dunham Hall on the SIU Edwardsville campus. The Board also approved retention of four area general contractors to manage various small projects at SIUE.
The $1.6 million computer room renovation will be funded by ITS fees ($600,000) and University plant fees ($1 million). Mechanical and electrical systems will be modified by replacing the heat exchangers, reconfiguring or replacing server racks, and replacing the electrical distribution and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) in the room. The current room configuration was designed for the mainframe which was decommissioned in 2009. The work will be phased to maintain network operations. A qualifications based selection (QBS) process was used to select BRiC Partnership of Belleville as the project designer.
The Board established open service contracts for general contractor services to:
- Interior Construction Services of St. Louis
- Plocher Construction of Highland
- L. Wolf Co. of Granite City
- Limbaugh Construction of Granite City
As maintenance, repairs and renovation work are necessary on the SIUE campus, the approved contractors will bid to furnish all labor, equipment, tools and materials for small general construction projects. The individual projects will not exceed the formal bid limit of $76,600. The work will be funded from the project budget requiring the services.