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        "description": "University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing acute and specialist services to a population of over 2.2 million people across the West Midlands. UHB operates across four main sites: Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Heartlands Hospital, Good Hope Hospital, and Solihull Hospital, as well as numerous community surgeries, clinics and offices. UHB IT Services provides a number of secure remote access solutions which underpin remote working for staff and other external users. These solutions cater for a variety of user cases. UHB is seeking information from potential suppliers for: 1) A secure remote access solution that can provide virtual desktop and virtual application availability which will replace an aging Citrix and Nutanix HCI solution. 2) A secure VPN connection solution that offers access to the corporate network using Trust provided devices from any internet-enabled location. Suppliers wishing to participate in this market engagement exercise and express an interest in this requirement should respond to the questionnaire via the online form on the Health Family Single eCommercial System Portal (Atamis) by 13:00 on Monday 13th January 2025. https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome Please search for C323981 To View documents please register interest and then navigate \"My Proposals and quotes\".",
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