UST GLOBAL PRIVATE LIMITED

UST Generative AI (GenAI) Platform

UST's GenAI Sandbox is a dynamic platform for safely experimenting with Generative AI, supporting use cases like document summarization and intelligent search. It integrates with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, simplifies using multiple LLMs, and connects with your data for impactful results, all while upholding Responsible AI principles.

Features

• Business Capability–Led AI Assistants
• Enterprise Knowledge Ingestion & Contextual Reasoning
• Rapid Prototyping and Time to Market
• Support for Continuous Learning and Improvement
• Secure and governed Enterprise AI platform
• Control of Business Data
• AI-driven workflow automation and task automation
• Modal agnostic and cloud flexible architecture
• Usage monitoring, Cost control and Responsible AI
• Metadata driven ingestion for seamless integration of datasources

Benefits

• Fast Deployment
• Tailored AI Assistant and Agentic Capability
• Cloud Agnostic
• Auditability, Traceability, and Monitoring.
• Secure use of AI with sensitivity

• Education pricing available
• Free trial available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

767883274298336

Contact

Sathiya Gopal
+44 7887713796
ukpublicsectorsales@ust.com

About your service

• Service categories:

  Application Development and Deployment

  AI platforms

  AI life cycle

  • MLOps and Foundation Model Ops Software

  AI software services

  • Generative AI Software Services
  • Document AI Software Services
• Multi cloud support: Yes

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model: Private cloud
• Service constraints: Integration of any custom developed models will require feasibility assessment
• System requirements:
  • Customer cloud access
  • Compute resources
  • Required permissions for deployment and access.
  • Active Directory integration for authentication.
  • Structured/unstructured data

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes
• Support response times: Response will depend on the criticality and impact to the business
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.2 AA
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: Yes
• Web chat support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the web chat support is accessible: Web chat will be accessible within the main portal for the platform
• Web chat accessibility testing: Current platform is yet to go through the testing with assistive technology
• Onsite support: Yes
• Support levels: For subscribed customers, we provide an account manager to support interactions. Access to online knowledge base documents and FAQs. Email support with a guaranteed response time within 48-72 hours. Monitoring of the sandbox environment to anticipate and resolve issues periodically. Help with configuring and customising for specific business needs. Tailored training to help address needs within specific use cases and scenarios.
• Support available to third parties: Yes
• AI chatbot: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: Users get started through an onboarding process that includes deployment in the customer’s cloud environment, setup support from UST, and collaborative sessions to review features, configuration needs, and best‑practice usage.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• End-of-contract data extraction: Users extract their data by downloading it directly from their own cloud environment where the platform is deployed. All data remains within the customer’s cloud subscription, and they retain full control to export or remove it at contract end.
• End-of-contract process: At the end of the contract, all software operation, support, and maintenance provided by UST stops. Since the platform is deployed fully inside the customer’s own cloud environment, all data and configurations remain under the customer’s control, and they can retain, export, or remove the deployment as needed.; Included in the price; ; Deployment of the software in the customer’s cloud environment; Ongoing support and maintenance of the platform; Configuration, updates, and performance tuning; Documentation and best‑practice guidance; Troubleshooting and dedicated support during the engagement; Additional cost; ; Any cloud compute resources required, which the customer must provision in their own cloud subscription; Any additional cloud subscriptions or payments associated with using the environment
• Documentation accessibility standard: WCAG 2.2 AA

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Chrome
• Application to install: No
• Designed for use on mobile devices: No
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Description of service interface: The service provides a web‑based interface with interactive cards, an analytics dashboard, administration controls, and a natural‑language query workspace for knowledge extraction.
• Accessibility standards: None or don’t know
• Description of accessibility: The service is accessed through a secure web interface integrated with the customer’s cloud environment and authenticated via the customer’s Active Directory.
• Accessibility testing: We have not yet completed formal assistive‑technology testing.
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: Users can access approved API functions, but cannot perform administrative or platform‑configuration actions through the API.
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • Open API (also known as Swagger)
  • HTML
• API sandbox or test environment: No
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: Users can customise the service by creating and configuring pre‑built or custom AI “cards,” adjusting prompts, selecting available generative AI services, and uploading their own structured or unstructured data for knowledge extraction.

Scaling

• Independence of resources: Each customer runs the platform in their own cloud environment with dedicated compute resources, ensuring no performance impact from other users.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: No

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Security Clearance (SC)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations:
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • Other locations
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 4.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Penetration testing approach: In-house
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v4.0
  • Encryption of all physical media
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
• Data sanitisation type: Deleted data can’t be directly accessed / Cryptographic Erasure

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Users export their data directly from their own cloud environment where the platform is deployed, since all data remains fully under the customer’s control.
• Data export formats: CSV
• Data import formats: CSV

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks: TLS (version 1.2 or above)
• Data protection within supplier network: TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: We guarantee a high level of service availability through clearly defined Service Level Agreements (SLAs). The level of availability depends on the availability mechanisms chosen by the customer for the infrastructure services
• Approach to resilience: UST follows standard deployment and support practices, but detailed resilience information is available on request.
• Outage reporting: Our outage reporting is through email alerts.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Authentication:; Multi-factor authentication (MFA) mandatory for all administrative accounts and support staff. Single sign-on (SSO) integration available for customer organizations. Strong password policies enforced (minimum 12 characters, complexity requirements, 90-day rotation).; Authorization:; Role-based access control (RBAC) limits permissions based on job function. Principle of least privilege applied—users granted minimum access required. Administrative actions require secondary approval for sensitive operations.; Audit & Monitoring:; All management interface access logged with timestamps and user attribution. Privileged access sessions recorded. Automated alerts for suspicious activities including after-hours access or multiple failed login attempts. Regular access reviews ensure appropriate permissions.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
• Management access authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: User-defined
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: User-defined
• How long system logs are stored for: User-defined

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards: ISO/IEC 27001
• Information security policies and processes: UST follow a defined escalation and reporting approach. Full details can be supplied upon request.
• Software Security Code of Practice: Yes

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
• Configuration and change management approach: Undisclosed. Information can be provided to individual customers under an NDA.
• Vulnerability management type: Undisclosed
• Vulnerability management approach: Undisclosed. Information can be provided to individual customers under an NDA.
• Protective monitoring type: Undisclosed
• Protective monitoring approach: Undisclosed. Information can be provided to individual customers under an NDA.
• Incident management type: Undisclosed
• Incident management approach: Our incident management approach is based on the ITIL v3/v4 framework.
• Post-quantum cryptography secure: No

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Supplier-defined process

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Pricing

• Discount for educational organisations: Yes
• Free trial available: Yes
• Description of free trial: No

Discount percentage by annual call-off contract value (excluding VAT)

• Less than £250,000: 0%
• Between £250,000 and £500,000: 0%
• Between £500,001 and £1,000,000: 0%
• Between £1,000,001 and £2,500,000: 1%
• Between £2,500,001 and £5,000,000: 2%
• Over £5,000,001: 3%

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: Intertek
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: Sunday 26 October 2025
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: All controls are included
• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• ISO 9001 certification: No
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number: 45ea2c7d-0dcf-4719-9ad0-62a1cde170e5
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number: Aca8d25b-6da3-4baf-b86b-fa2f746d3fc0
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications:
  • ISO 22301
  • ISO 27701

Social value

• Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery:

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 1: Fair work: That offers fair wages and good working conditions. Help people get a job, stay in work, and progress in their careers, with good employment opportunities across the country. Notes: Where there is a large proportion of labour costs in the contract, commercial teams should consider MAC in Outcome 1 as a priority

    • New or retained jobs on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b, 1c and 1d
    • New apprenticeships on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b
    • Providing opportunities for, and measuring and monitoring of, staff workforce conditions over time, including employee engagement, involvement in decision-making and satisfaction and adapting to any changes in the results, with clear processes for acting on issues identified
    • Plans to engage the contract workforce in deciding the most important workplace issues to address
    • Ensuring new workers are informed of their right to join a trade union
    • Monitoring of employee engagement rates (by protected characteristic) and, where necessary, the development of actions to ensure all voices are heard across the diversity of the workforce
    • Employment contracts that reflect actual hours worked; steps taken to ensure employees understand their contracts and have the ability to review and adjust them if actual hours regularly exceed contracted hours
    • Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about, and feel empowered to, address their physical wellbeing
    • Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about and feel empowered to report and address bullying and harassment
    • Activities to cascade good practice on fair working conditions throughout the supply chain
    • Offer a pay and leave entitlement to all eligible staff who become kinship carers, ideally equivalent to statutory adoption pay and leave
    • Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
    • Monitoring and reporting of gender and ethnicity pay gaps and plans to address them where necessary
    • Entitlement to sick pay for the contract workforce, with provision in place for any staff who do not meet the earnings threshold for statutory sick pay, payment of sick pay from day one of absence and payment of staff on the contract workforce who are off sick a replacement income of 100% of their usual earnings for as long as possible
    • Plans for an appropriate income replacement policy for staff who are required to spend time away from work to care for a sick dependent or close relative
    • Understanding of in-work progression issues affecting the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
    • Measures to support in-work progression to help people in the contract workforce, to move into higher paid work by developing new skills relevant to the contract
    • Support for the contract workforce by providing career advice, and providing opportunities for staff working on the contract with in-work progression career development into known skills shortages or high growth areas
    • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
    • Volunteering opportunities for staff
    • Understanding of the modern slavery risks and issues affecting the market, industry, sector or country (of origin or of source) relevant to the contract, and the workforce in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key subcontractors
    • Measures to identify, mitigate and manage modern slavery risks relating to the contract and how these will be implemented
    • Outline policies and practices to be applied to or put in place for the contract to mitigate and manage modern slavery risks, including: Pre-employment checks, recruitment practices. Workplace conditions, safeguarding plans and processes in place and regular monitoring with relevant groups considered, which may include sampling
    • How these flow down the supply chain and are monitored Illustrative examples include reporting, site visits, audits, etc.
    • How to ensure business decisions re: price/cost, short lead times, payment timescales do not create modern slavery risks in the supply chain
    • How the supplier will work with NGOs, trade unions or other businesses to address modern slavery risk
    • Means of influencing staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders with respect to modern slavery risks relating to the contract

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 2: Skills for growth: Supporting growth sectors and addressing skills gaps.

    • Understanding of employment and relevant skills issues, and of the education and training issues relating to the contract. Illustrative examples: demographics, skills shortages, new opportunities in high growth sectors, geographic/local community and skills/employment challenges
    • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
    • Activities to support relevant sector related skills growth and sustainability in the contract workforce. Illustrative examples: careers talks, curriculum support, literacy support, safety talks and volunteering
    • Delivery of apprenticeships, supported internships and T Level industry placement opportunities (Level 2, 3 and 4+) in relation to the contract

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 3: Resilient, innovative and flexible supply chains: Support economic growth through enabling resilient businesses, opportunities for small businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises

    • Activities to identify opportunities to open up sub-contracts under the prime contract to a diverse range of businesses, including new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
    • Activities that demonstrate a collaborative way to work with a diverse range of businesses as part of the supply chain
    • Advertising of supply chain opportunities openly and to ensure they are accessible to a diverse range of businesses, including advertising all subcontracting opportunities on Contracts Finder
    • Ensuring accessibility to contracting and subcontracting opportunities for disabled business owners and employees
    • Structuring of the supply chain selection process to ensure fairness (e.g. anti-corruption) and encourages participation by a diverse range of businesses, including with regard to new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutual
    • Methods for engaging with different parts of the community (including the education system and charities representing the community) and how communities come together to inform decisions, strategy and projects to leave a positive legacy for future generations
    • Plans for positive actions with community groups.
    • Measures for making facilities used in the delivery of the contract available for community groups, education or training
    • Plans to respond flexibly and adapt approaches to community engagement and initiatives
    • Support for community-led initiatives relevant to the contract. Illustrative examples: improving transport links; reducing loneliness; helping with English language proficiency; and facilitating social mixing among people with different backgrounds
    • Collaborating with anchor institutions and community groups to make facilities available for education, training or community events

  • Mission: Make Britain a clean energy superpower: To cut bills, create jobs and deliver security with cheaper, zero-carbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero

    Policy Outcome 4: Sustainable procurement practices: Reducing carbon footprints, minimising waste, and promoting the use of clean energy and green technologies.

    • Collaborative ways of working with the supply chain to deliver additional environmental benefits in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Delivery of additional environmental benefits through the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Activities to reconnect people with the environment and increase awareness of ways to protect and enhance it

  • Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain

    Policy Outcome 6: Employment and training: For those who face barriers to employment

    • Understanding of employment and skills issues, and of the skills and employment shortages of high growth sectors relating to the contract
    • Creation of employment opportunities particularly for those who face barriers to employment, such as prison leavers, care leavers and/or who are located in deprived areas, and for people in industries with known skills shortages or in high growth sectors
    • Delivery of training schemes and programmes to address any identified skills gaps and under-representation in the workforce for the contract (e.g. prison leavers, care leavers, kinship carers, disabled people)
    • Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
    • Understanding of the issues affecting the representation of disabled people in the workforce in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
    • Collection of the views and expertise of disabled people and their representative organisations on successfully supporting disabled employees or applicants
    • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, and retention-focused activities, including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition
    • Introducing transparency to pay and reward processes
    • Working conditions which promote an inclusive working environment and promote retention and progression
    • Other measures to provide equality of opportunity for disabled people and those with health conditions into employment, including becoming a Disability Confident employer and inclusion of supported businesses in the contract supply chain
    • Inclusive and accessible development practices, including guidance for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition

  • Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain

    Policy Outcome 7: Creating a pipeline of opportunities: For the contract workforce, reducing barriers to entry for under-represented groups.

    • Understanding of the issues affecting the development of new skills by target cohort
    • Understanding of the underlying factors affecting improvements to reduce barriers to entry and training schemes for the target cohort(s) related to the contract workforce
    • Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
    • Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce
    • Creation of outreach activities to create a pipeline of employees for the future contract delivery
    • Content of the outreach activity is designed to suit the target cohort
    • Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort

  • Mission: Build an NHS fit for the future: That is there when people need it; with fewer lives lost to the biggest killers; in a fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer.

    Policy Outcome 8: Increasing productivity through physical and mental wellbeing: In the supply chain and communities in the relevant area.

    • Understanding of issues relating to health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce
    • Understanding barriers to access to health and social care services or employment opportunities e.g. digital inclusion
    • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, development practices and retention policies that support-focused activities including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing which support people with a disability or health condition
    • Actions to invest in the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the contract workforce

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at ukpublicsectorsales@ust.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.