---
title: "Unity Smart Homes - City Green"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-077f43"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "Gentoo Group"
published: "2026-10-02"
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# Unity Smart Homes - City Green

Buyer: Gentoo Group  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-077f43

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## Summary

Gentoo Group procured a smart-home monitoring package for its City Green requirement: 55 Unity Smart Homes hardware sets, together with portal access, inclusive mobile data and operational data for use in Gentoo’s Unity Smart Homes environment and its associated features. The package also includes access to the Unity Companion app. The hardware is classified as moisture meters, but the requirement is broader than supplying meters alone: it combines equipment with ongoing digital access and data services. Delivery is in Sunderland, where Gentoo is based. This is a goods procurement with a connected service element, suited to suppliers able to provide compatible smart-home monitoring equipment and support its use through an online environment and mobile application.

The procurement is complete and a contract has been awarded to Alpaca Global Solutions Limited. Gentoo used a below-threshold limited competition. The contract was signed on 29 September 2026 and runs from 29 September 2026 to 25 September 2029, with one optional 12-month extension. The contract value is £49,828 including VAT. The requirement was structured as one lot. The published information identifies no separate scoring or evaluation criteria, so the basis on which bids were compared is not stated here. The award covers the Unity Smart Homes hardware and associated portal, data and app access for the City Green requirement.

For a future equivalent requirement from Gentoo, a credible competitor would need to deliver an integrated smart-home monitoring offer rather than hardware alone: sets of compatible equipment, access to the buyer’s monitoring environment and companion app, and the mobile and operational data needed to keep the service running. The selected supplier was an SME, showing that this scale of requirement was delivered by a smaller business. Suppliers should be able to support the equipment and associated digital services as a combined package and meet the ongoing service needs across the contract term. Gentoo used limited competition for this below-threshold purchase, so suppliers seeking similar work should be equipped to engage with a restricted competitive process.

## Notice

City Green Smart Home live monitoring: To supply 55x UNITY Smart Homes Hardware sets. * 36-month contract duration with option to renew on rolling 12-month basis thereafter. * To supply portal access, mobile data (inclusive) and operational data to the Gentoo UNITY Smart Homes environment and all its associated features for the contract duration. * To supply access to the UNITY Companion App

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/093128-2026 |
| Notice type | UK7 - Contract Details Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Goods |
| Procurement method | Limited |
| Procurement method details | Below threshold - limited competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 2 Oct 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 29 Sep 2026 - 25 Sep 2029 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £49,828 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | Gentoo Group |
| Locality | SUNDERLAND |
| Postcode area | Sunderland |
| Postcode | SR3 3XR |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLC North East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLC4 Northumberland, Durham and Tyne & Wear |
| ITL 3 | TLC44 Sunderland |
| Local authority | Sunderland |
| Electoral ward | Doxford |
| Westminster constituency | Houghton and Sunderland South |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | ALPACA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 38 - Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

### Codes

- 38932000 - Moisture meters

## Release History

- 2 Oct 2026 at 09:35 - Award - UK7 - Contract Details Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/093128-2026

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/093128-2026
  2nd October 2026 - Contract details notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

## Provenance

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