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Show li BIDS OPENED ON I! THE STATE 1 1 CAPITOL UN Salt ke' Dec- - The lowest bid- Hr t on Utah's capitol building is the SSif Hu? Stewart company, through tho Wfc bait Lake managers, H. w. Baum and fl& tJrm e(lerlclson. The firm is a . Partnership of two brothers, Alex M. "fcj Siu James c Stewart of New York. g They propose to "build Ihc big state H . structure In accordance with apeoiri- m cations for $1,106,000. Without heat- m' !?g P'umbin6 and electric fixtures mt ooo7 t0 d0 tho work for ?1'040- r1 uThv. "sures wore disclosed when limh bI, s, wore onned by the capitol imi wmmlsHion in the Commercial club M I dJ"In5 room yesterday afternoon. The K P v f of tbe commission in the Felt building was too small Tor the large M K crowd of contractors and other intcr- Mc ?uted Persna vho gathered to hear rlM- the proposals. 4Mfi The Stewart company was the low- ajfc est both with and without the fix- ?! tures; A rough comparison of its bids ff 2? JteraatJves, with regard to the -ggv kinds of material to be used, with WBj the alternative bids of its competitors, vim showed it to bo generally lowest in Spff- thiB respect also. Tho nearest rival jff?" on tho huilding as a whole, with and j5W-r without fixtures, was the A. A. Clark lM' company. This firm proposed to do flB tho work with fixtures for $1,103,- ifi 000 and without fixtures for $1,107,000 Dffcj There were nine bidders, three of ifTrift. whom omitted the fixtures in making ljUL proposals. Lewis A. Hicks was one ,0f of the threo. "Without fixtures his Im, figures, $1,123,280, were third from ) the lowest. P. J. (Moran was sixth. : "Separate Contracts. mml Following are the lowest bidders "fiv, and thoir figures on separate contracts llll for the building: i?. Heating and ventilating. Green Bijij Plumbing & Heating company, 540,- M'j 940; plumbing, Green Plumbing & A? Heating company, $14,000; electric IB fixtures, Standard Engineering coni- I pany, $11,900; painting, D. Zelinsky, ?vf $6,S75; plastering, Smith & McCal- III ft Hn, $132,772.19, elevator equipment, I ft Otis Elevator company, $9,800; vault 'l doors, Mosler Safe company, Los Anil An-il geles, 20 doors at $69 per door, f. o. II b, Salt Lake. (Hi) There was only one bidder each for w2m Mastering, elevator equipment and H)i ault doors, the proposals being made H that the commission might avail lt-5 lt-5 "If of the figures should it decide "5af to havo these items of construction jg, contracted for under separate agrec-Sf, agrec-Sf, ments. Otherwise the general con-lagr con-lagr tractor will do the work It will bo iMf noted that the Green Plumbing fc Hw Heating company Is lowest Tor two Hi contracts, tho total of tho two bids M being $54,940. SiW List of Bidders, teif Three of the nine contracting firms B TWHII I Mil M whose bids on tho capitol were opened open-ed made proposals on the building exclusive of plumbing, heating, ventilating ven-tilating and lighting equipment. Six bid on the building with and without with-out these fixtures. Figures in all bids opened by the capitol commission are given below. Bids on the capitol as a whole Include all items in the other tables: Bids on State Capitol. James Stewart Co ?1, 100,000 A. A. Clark Co 1,103,000 Lewis A. Hicks Co LIndgren Co 1,200,000 Dinwiddlo Const Co 1,2H,000 P. J. Moran 1,217,492 Campbell Bldg. Co George Curley Hans Pederson 1.-153.130 'No bid. ""Bidder stipulates that $9,000 be added for elevators. Difference between lowest bidder and closest competitor with fixtures, $57,000; without, $07,000. Bide on Heating and Ventilation. Green Plumbing & Heating Co $10,940 Davidson & Harris 12,127 Midgley Bros 12,500 Pacilic Fire Extinguisher Co.. 43.0CS Hlgson & Rossitor Co 44,200 Coogan Engineering Co. I heating heat-ing only with Coogan heating heat-ing system) 29,900 Difference between lowest bidder and closest competitor, $1,4S7. Bids on Electric Wiring and Fixtures. Standard Engineering Co. ...,.$11,900 Salt Lake Electric Supply Co.. 13,473 Pacific Fire Extinguisher Co... 14.000 Intcrmountaln Electric Co 1G.529 Gunn Electric Co 29,329 Difference between lowest and closest clos-est competitor, $1,573. Bids on Plumbing. Green Plumbing & Heating Co. $11,000 Davidson-Harris Co 15,572 Midgley Bros 22,500 Hlgson & Rossltcr Co 27,200 Difference between lowest and closest clos-est competitor, $1,572. Bids on Painting. D. Zelinsky $G.S75 Philip Dern 7,450 Hamlin Impervla Co 7,700 S. P Keate Co 9,250 Difference between lowest and closest clos-est competitor, $575. Bids on Plastering. Smith & McCallln $132,772.19 Bids on Elevator. Otis Elevator Co $9,800 Bids on Vault Doors. Mosler Safe Co., per door, f. o. b. Salt Lake $G9 Tho last three had no competitors save the firms that bid on the building build-ing as a whole. |