If you are writing a specification, assembling a bid package, or spending Section 5310 money, this page is the paperwork side of HLE in one place. If something you need is not here, ask and we will send it.
Buy America is certified per order, not per product. FTA Buy America requirements under 49 CFR Part 661 are decided by the specific configuration, the specific components on that build, and the specific procurement in front of you. No manufacturer can honestly answer it with a blanket statement, and you should be skeptical of any that does.
What we can tell you: HLE has met Buy America requirements on every project that carried them. We certify compliance in writing at quote — for that bus, on that bid.
Send us the solicitation with the specification and we will confirm the Buy America position as part of the quote, along with the pre-award and post-award audit certifications your agency needs.
The MAVRYK completed the FTA bus testing program at Altoona at the 7-year / 200,000-mile service life category and passed: 82.6 aggregate, 100% reliability, 98% safety, 97% structural integrity, and 53.81 hours of unscheduled maintenance against a 125-hour allowance.
The full report is published here, and it is also in the Penn State FTA database. We publish what the test found and what we changed as a result — and a guide teaching buyers how to audit any builder's report, including ours.
The most common reason a good bus loses a bid is that the specification was drafted from whichever manufacturer's website happened to publish numbers. Ours are published.
Need a spec packet in a particular format, or language for a specific line item? That is a normal request. Ask.