Conflict of interest

When an assessment round asks for a conflict of interest declaration, Backed shows the Conflict of Interest page before you can open the application. You declare once for each assessment.

Labels that name Application or Applicant use your organisation's own term if you've renamed it.

What the page shows

• The organisation's guidance on conflicts of interest, when it has written some.
• Application information: the details the round chose to show you, such as the Application Title, the Applicant Name and the Collaborator List.
• Any fields of the application marked for conflict of interest checks, read only.

You don't see the rest of the application until you have declared no conflict.

Declare no conflict

1. Under Do you have a conflict of interest with this Application?, choose I have no conflict of interest.
2. Select Next. Backed records your declaration and takes you to the next step.

Declare a conflict

1. Choose I have a conflict of interest.
2. Enter the Reason for the conflict of interest. An Administrator reads this when they review the conflict.
3. If the round asks for more about the conflict, choose each of the three under About the conflict (see below).
4. Select Next. Backed shows Check your declaration.
5. Select Submit Conflict of Interest, or Back to change it.

Once you submit, you can't open this application or its assessment unless an Administrator revokes the conflict. The status becomes Declared Conflict, and opening the assessment shows Conflict of interest declared.

About the conflict

Some assessment rounds ask for three more answers whenever you declare a conflict. They appear under the reason once you choose I have a conflict of interest, and you must choose all three:

• Relationship: Family, Personal, Professional, Financial, Institutional or Other.
• Direction: From me to the Applicant, From the Applicant to me or Both ways.
• Seriousness: Low, Medium or High.

If one is left at Choose…, Backed says so at that answer and doesn't send the declaration. Check your declaration shows your answers under your reason. A round that doesn't ask for them doesn't show them.

Declare a conflict while assessing

If you declared no conflict but find one part-way through, you can still declare it while the assessment is Assessing:

1. On the assessment page, select Declare a conflict.
2. Enter the Reason for the conflict of interest, and the three answers under About the conflict if the round asks for them.
3. Select Declare conflict, or Cancel to leave it.

Your answers so far are kept, but you can't open the application or its assessment again unless an Administrator revokes the conflict. The status becomes Declared Conflict.

Declare a conflict isn't shown before you start, once you've submitted the assessment, after the round's Close date, or on a round that doesn't ask for a conflict of interest declaration. If the assessment changed while you had it open, Backed says so in the dialog: reload the page and try again.

After an Administrator reviews it

• Conflict Confirmed: you will not assess this application. Nothing more is needed from you.
• Conflict Revoked: you can assess this application again. Select Assess to carry on.

After the round's Close date

Once the assessment round's Close date has passed, the declaration can no longer be made or changed.

See also

• Deciding whether to assess
• Assessing an application