This is despite 2010's comprehensive spending review stipulating that the savings should be made through efficiencies in IT, procurement and back office functions.
In March Chuka Umunna, Labour's shadow business secretary, asserted the need for "smarter use of public procurement to back our target industries".
The potential savings from joint procurement and back office systems are huge and it looks as if Labour has, if anything, been cautious about what can be achieved without hitting the front line.
Within 24 hours, Dan Ronnow, vice president of distribution and procurement, wrote back saying the company would be honored to send coffee overseas and would pick up the shipping cost.
It is Mr Mbeki, the bitter rival from whom Mr Zuma wrested the ANC's presidency last December, whose political survival is now at stake.The court's decision, which dealt only with procedure, has no bearing on whether Mr Zuma is guilty or innocent of the shenanigans related to arms procurement dating back to the 1990s.
Part of the savings from the welfare budget will help fund the increase, but schools will still be expected to make £1bn of "procurement and back office" savings, and teachers will face a pay freeze.
Mr Yates said: "We have made significant savings from our management structures, procurement and back-office functions... we will continue to examine these areas and anticipate further savings of approximately £2m from non-frontline services.
Second, toward the end of the program, the learning curve went backwards as unit procurement costs went back up.
However, there has been marked reluctance by the England and Wales police forces to join up their procurement and share back office services.
Comments are also invited about increasing transparency within supply chains for major contracts and capital infrastructure programmes across Scotland and addressing poor performing suppliers The origins of Scotland's proposed procurement reforms date back to businessman John McClelland's review of procurement performance in Scotland's public sector in 2006.
