Many E-commerce systems for construction material procurement were developed to improve business process, to cut administration cost, and to provide more comprehensive information.
Cutting administration costs will be a mantra across all government departments: the Arts Council is currently closest to the target at 6.5%, after a wave of painful cuts under Labour.
Overall, the budget for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, one of Whitehall's smallest, was cut by 5% and will have to reduce administration costs by 20%.
Some had feared a repeat of 2010 when the Arts Council was given a 30% cut (including an order to cut its administration costs by half) from which arts organisations were cut 15%.
Under David Cameron's premiership, the coalition government said its health reforms, which handed control over commissioning services to GPs, would "cut the number of health bodies to help meet the government's commitment to cut NHS administration costs by a third, including by abolishing primary care trusts and strategic health authorities".
Plans announced based on the Gershon Review for a 5% cut in administration costs by 2008, saving £20bn.
David Cameron failed on Thursday night in his bid to persuade the European council president, Herman Van Rompuy, to agree a €6bn (£4.85bn) cut in EU administration costs.
The aim, in addition to reducing the government's reliance on aid, is to cut disproportionately high administration costs on small aid budgets countries like Norway and Sweden, for example, provide only about $10m-15m 10m-15m
The new team-oriented categories, which begin in 1998, will cut back on administration costs by reducing the number of projects that must undergo peer review.
