Progress Reports and Technical Publications
Background: Through its Integrated Fish & Wildlife Program, BPA partners with
Columbia Basin Tribes, Federal, State, and private organizations who implement fish and
wildlife projects under contract with BPA. BPA publishes the results of these projects
via technical and non-technical reports in a searchable publications database.
Types of Reports and Publications: Contractors report their progress and accomplishments
in a variety of ways. The type of publication is based on the level of reporting, the kind of
work being done, and the product or service the contract or project provides.
- Contract status reports, based on contract milestones and deliverables,
are submitted by contractors monthly or quarterly in Pisces,
BPA's project management software tool for fish and wildlife projects. While
contract-level status reports are not viewable by the general public, project
status reports, which present aggregate data about all of the contract deliverables
under a given project, are available on our Fish
and Wildlife Program Report Center.
- Technical publications, produced by research projects and scientific studies funded by BPA,
include technical research reports, symposium papers, and scientific journal articles. Technical
reports are relatively all-encompassing (spanning the scope of the contract/project), detailed,
formal, and often structured according to a prescribed format. Many of these reports are registered
with the Department of Energy (DOE), and assigned a unique publication number. These publications are
available to the public on-line through our
publications search page.
- Non-technical reports and (annual) progress reports may be produced by contractors in cases
where Pisces status reporting alone is not sufficient to document important results from a contract/project,
but a technical report is not necessary. These results may include lessons learned, tabular summaries of
simple monitoring results, photos, etc. A non-technical report may also be produced when the extra documentation of
results is so technically simple that a DOE technical publication is not warranted. This type of report
may be used for any project, except those doing data analysis/interpretation or developing RM&E methods
and designs. BPA does not require a specific format for non-technical reports at this time, but does
recommend that they cover activities in the scope of work whose results were not sufficiently presented in
the Pisces status reports. Non-technical reports and (annual) progress reports are uploaded to Pisces,
and are publicly available through the publications search page, but are not published as DOE technical
reports.
Draft Reports and Publications: Draft reports and scientific papers submitted to BPA are typically held
for 30 days to allow for BPA and/or peer review before publication. Soliciting peer review is the
responsibility of the report author, and comments or questions about a report should be directed to
him or her. The report author or BPA project manager may upload comments about a report into Pisces
and make these comments available through the publications search page along with the report.
Contractors should review the formatting
guidelines prior to uploading reports to Pisces.
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