• After you have been assigned Statements of Interest (SOI) or full Proposals to review, you will receive an email message containing a link to your Reviewer Dashboard
  
  
• The email will be from rfp@usgs.gov

• After you click on the link in the email for the first time, you will be taken to a Reviewer Confidentiality Agreement page. Please read through the entire page and click either I agree or I can NOT agree to continue. 

Editing Reviewer Contact Information 

• You will be directed to your reviewer dashboard page after clicking I agree.  
  
  
• Click on Complete/Edit Registration at the bottom of the Contact Information box. Blank fields may be completed, but this is not necessary. 

Initiate Review

• To fill out the review forms for an application (Proposal) click on a link in the Additional Forms box of the proposal you would like to review. 
  
  
• After clicking on a link, follow the directions on the screen to enter scores and/or comments based on the listed criteria.  

Make sure you select a Review Status based on the status of your review for each application.

If you need to leave and come back to a review, please mark the status as In Progress.

Complete Review 

• Once you have completed the review, change the Review Status to Complete and click Submit at the bottom of the page.
  
  
• Clicking Submit will take you back to your Reviewer Dashboard page. You MUST click Submit or Submit then go to Next for your review data to save.
  
  
• After you have finished with the reviews, you can close the page, or use the Blue EXIT button.