Kitty Kat is a project manager with the $($fictitious$)$ Department for Administrative Affairs $($DAA$).$ Assume that DAA is an official Western Australian government agency. Kitty has been asked to summarise major activities and milestones in a project procurement process as part of a project to construct a new $$12$m concrete building in Mandurah. The building will be used by DAA for a few offices and meeting rooms for employees based in the area. A separate part of the project team is dealing with the scope, requirements, specifications, financing, and architectural plans. Kitty has been asked to focus only on the project procurement activities and wants to know if she can make the building more sustainable using the terms of the contract.

Kitty has approached you for guidance as she has not worked on a procurement process before.

Using the information available here summarise the main steps in a typical procurement process within Western Australia for a contract of this size and identify crucial milestones.