Part 5: Conflicts of interest Section 83: Conflicts assessments
Subsections (1) and (2) place a duty on the contracting authority to prepare an assessment of conflicts of interest for the specific covered procurement before the tender notice, transparency notice or notice establishing a dynamic market is published.
	Subsection (3) sets out that a conflicts assessment must include the conflicts or potential conflicts of interest identified in accordance with section 81 (conflicts of interest: duty to identify) and detail the steps taken, or that will be taken, by the contracting authority to mitigate conflicts of interest, as per section 82 (conflicts of interest: duty to mitigate).
	Subsection (4) adds that a conflicts assessment is also to include steps taken, or that will be taken, to demonstrate that circumstances which a contracting authority considers are likely to be perceived as conflicts of interest, will not turn into actual or potential conflicts of interest.
	Subsection (5) obliges contracting authorities to keep the conflicts assessment under review, revising as necessary and to confirm when publishing a relevant notice throughout the procurement lifecycle that an assessment has been prepared and revised. Thus the requirement is to give confirmation, via a published notice, that the relevant obligations in Part 5 have been carried out, however there is no duty to publish a conflicts assessment.
	Subsection (6) provides that the obligation to review and update the conflicts assessment as per subsection (5) continues through the life of the procurement and contract and only ceases after the publication of the procurement or contract termination notice, or notice that a dynamic market has ceased operation.
	Subsection (7) sets out how the previous subsections apply to private utilities to take account of the fact that private utilities are not required to publish notices to terminate a dynamic market (see section 39 - dynamic market notices), terminate procurements (see section 55 - procurement termination notices) or terminate contracts (section 80 - contract termination notices).
	Subsection (8) provides relevant definitions, including details of the relevant notices that will require a contracting authority to confirm that a conflicts assessment has been prepared and revised in accordance with the provisions of this section.