Bucharest is the only city outside Slovakia where we have a physical office — **Piața Presei Libere, sector 1**. That's not a virtual address for invoicing, nor a satellite set up on paper before a tender. It's MPIS's second pillar branch, the place where the Slovak-Romanian team sits on the same floor, and the node through which every Romanian engagement runs. From the geography of our business, Romania is **the second strongest base right after Slovakia**, and Bucharest is its main point.
Edge data centre for telco — the reference project
Our delivered project `edge-datacenter-telco` (2024) is the Bucharest reference point we speak from with clients in the city. The telco operator needed a modern edge data centre dimensioned for 5G load — moving base computation closer to radio cells, reduced round-trip latency, and deterministic throughput via InfiniBand backbone. The delivery comprised four main layers: **Vertiv SmartMod** modular enclosure (factory-assembled, delivered in sections, stood up on site in 6 days), **InfiniBand NDR** for intra-rack and cross-rack communication, **DWDM** optical transport for uplinks into the operator core network, and **EcoStruxure IT** as the DCIM supervisory layer with integration into the operator NOC.
This project wasn't about "size" — it was about **modularity and repeatability**. Vertiv SmartMod is dimensioned as a building block: the same design can be replicated at multiple edge locations with minimal adjustments. For an operator planning to roll 5G across the country, modularity matters more than the absolute capacity of a single node. For us the interesting part was how the **documentation** had to be designed — not for one-off delivery, but as a template for follow-on deployments in Iași, Cluj, Constanța. Every CAD drawing, every EPLAN schematic, every EcoStruxure IT view was done with awareness it would repeat.
Bucharest IT cluster
Over the past decade, Bucharest has been the strongest IT cluster in south-eastern Europe. **Bitdefender** (global security vendor with HQ in sector 6), **UiPath** (RPA platform with 2021 NYSE IPO), **Endava**, **Crystal Decisions**, **Telekom Romania**, **Vodafone Romania**, **Orange Romania** — centralised in zones around the Piața Romană, Aviatorilor and Pipera metro. A second tier comprises **NXDATA data centres** (Pipera + Băneasa), **Telehouse București** (Politehnica), **ClassIT**, **M247** — colocation and managed services for the Romanian market + regional spillover into Bulgaria and Serbia.
For infrastructure work (fibre backbone, DCIM rollout, cooling design, AI compute) this is a client with real continuous demand. Our presence at Piața Presei Libere is reachable from this cluster within 30 minutes by metro — sector 1 is a neighbour, not another world.
OMV Petrom and petrochemicals around Bucharest
**OMV Petrom** is the largest petrochemical group in Romania — headquartered in Bucharest, with the **Petrobrazi refinery** (75 km north) and **Petromar** offshore division in Constanța. For an integrator OMV Petrom means work in ATEX zones under Romanian transposition of Directive 2014/34/EU (HG 245/2016), with **EPL Gb / Db classification**, and SIL hazard analysis for PLC updates under IEC 61511. This is the same regulatory framework as Slovnaft Vlčie hrdlo in Slovakia — our team has experience via SK projects.
**Dacia Renault Mioveni** (120 km north-west of Bucharest) is outside the Bucureșt-Ilfov region (it belongs to Pitești), but commute-wise close and client-wise often managed through the Bucharest Renault Group representation. Sandero, Logan, Duster and Spring EV — from Mioveni comes the largest volume of export cars from RO.
Regulatory framework
For electrical installations **I7-2011** (Romanian normative for design, execution and operation of building electrical installations) plus **NTE 007/08/00** for LV/MV distribution. For building permits **Lege 50/1991** (autorizarea construcțiilor). For occupational safety **Codul Muncii (Legea 53/2003)** + **HG 1146/2006**. For lifting equipment **ISCIR** as the Romanian parallel of UDT Poland and German TÜV. For energy regulation **ANRE** (Autoritatea Națională de Reglementare în domeniul Energiei).
Our commuting relationship
From Prešov to Bucharest via SK-HU motorways + Nădlac to Arad is about 9 hours' drive, realistically 2.5 hours by air (KSC → OTP via Vienna or via Krakow). For Romanian projects we work in a hybrid regime: **the Bucharest office** handles on-site representation, communication with authorities (ITM, ISCIR, ANRE) and coordination with the client; **the Slovak team** arrives through shorter trips as project needs dictate. For Bucureșt-Ilfov the commute within the region is a matter of 30-60 minutes by metro or car.
Cross-border regime
For Slovak posted workers, Romanian law requires **ITM (Inspectoratul Teritorial de Muncă) notification at least 30 days in advance** plus **A1 from Slovak Social Insurance**. That's a longer lead than most other countries (DE has 14 days, AT has 7 days, CZ has 5 days), but for our ongoing projects we maintain **rolling registration** — new deployments under existing contracts go with shorter lead time. **The Bucharest team speaks Romanian, Slovak and English**; for German capital in RO (Continental, Schaeffler, Bosch) we can communicate in German too.
Conclusion
Bucharest isn't for us a "distant market we sometimes visit." It's the second pillar of our business, the place where we have physical representation, and the reference city for the Romanian IT, telco and petrochemical segments. For data centres and edge compute we have a verifiable project with full reference value. For infrastructure work around the Bucharest IT cluster we're a natural candidate. For OMV Petrom and ATEX-regulated petrochemicals we bring a Slovak-Romanian-English language combination, which in the local integration segment is rare.