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- Title: Gordon v. Gordon
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 23, 1955
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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This cause comes on direct appeal to this court from a judgment of the circuit court of Champaign County interpreting the Illinois Purchasing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1959, chap. 127, pars. 132.1 et seq.) approved July 11, 1957, (Laws of 1957, p. 2890), entitled "An Act in relation to state purchasing and contracts." Plaintiffs who are residents and taxpayers of Champaign County, conducting plumbing and heating businesses in Champaign County, belong to and constitute Page 503 an unincorporated association known as the Plumbing and Heating Contractors of Champaign County. They filed a petition for declaratory judgment against The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois alleging that the defendant board in the past and since the passage of the Illinois Purchasing Act makes purchases and expends funds for labor and repair, maintenance, remodeling, renovation and construction exceeding $1,500 on and about its property without awarding the same to the lowest responsible bidder on competitive bids, all in violation of the Illinois Purchasing Act. The petition refers specifically to the purchase of air conditioners to provide a refrigerated air conditioning system for the chemistry building on the University of Illinois campus at Urbana and the installation of said air conditioners by using defendants employees, without first requesting and advertising for bids and without letting the same to the lowest responsible bidder, allegedly in violation of the Illinois Purchasing Act. Defendant filed an answer admitting that "this defendant, when it considered it to be advantageous and economical to do so, has expended state funds appropriated to it by the General Assembly for labor, for repairs, maintenance, remodeling, renovation and construction work exceeding $1,500 in cost performed by this defendants own employees on and about its property instead of awarding such work to the lowest responsible bidder upon the basis of competitive bids taken by it therefor; but it denies that this was done in violation of any of the provisions of said Illinois Purchasing Act."