# AESME Lot 9: Assessment of the effectiveness of AES in reducing the climate vulnerability of SSSIs to climate change

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Natural England](/buyers/natural-england/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Mott Macdonald](/contract-winners/mott-macdonald/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £124,619
- Tender value: £124,619
- Award date: 13 January 2023
- Published: 31 January 2023
- Contract start: 13 January 2023
- Contract end: 31 March 2024
- Stage: awarded
- Notice ID: 28b41aea-9a3e-4bb1-9f46-46c599b5f9f1-610372
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-17d992cc-1d18-4b75-94b8-cb4139fae620

## Description

Climate change is placing additional pressures on protected areas, leading to specific areas of vulnerability that are context and site specific\. This project will review the existing approach to prioritising interventions; selection of options and use of prescriptions within Agri-environment schemes \(AES\) in relation to the management of protected areas to evaluate whether they are able to address the developing pressures that climate change poses\.

## Related contract awards

- [ETAFF AESW03](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-72e28da6-ee53-4f9a-81d7-3ac2b4312ead): Natural England
- [ETAFF AES&E03](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-9cce51d1-872d-450a-8702-2836c26f6e93): Natural England
- [ETAFF AEMidlands03](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5b9ee168-322d-4474-aefd-f8c65684829d): Natural England
- [SW - WSX - Bath Flood Defence Scheme - Twerton Gates Appraisal](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d1f7ed09-6078-49ff-b529-e068832e44d7): Environment Agency
- [PAHT - NHP Traffic and Transport Specialists](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-1ca2ac64-6fbb-4f8e-a180-d5a72fc38950): West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- [Urban Traffic Management and Control System \(UTMC\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-738ab9e9-63ab-4ada-a264-30957b8c8de0): National Highways Limited

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/28b41aea-9a3e-4bb1-9f46-46c599b5f9f1-610372)