The Federal Transit Authority has denied a request from the MBTA for matching funds to buy two new commuter line locomotives from a European company, ruling yesterday that they must be made in the United States.
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority chairman Daniel A. Grabauskas, at the behest of Vossloh España S.A., a Spanish subsidiary of a German firm, requested in September that the FTA waive its "Buy American" requirements for a contract Vossloh had bid on to build the locomotives.
They argued the waiver would "expand the competitive range to include Vossloh as a . . . bidder," according to FTA Deputy Administrator Sherry E. Little's decision.
But the authority decided the T's proposal to buy the locomotives in Spain would not save enough taxpayer money to warrant a public interest waiver. (Boston Globe-Full Story)
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