How To Spend More During the Downturn

This is "For Realz?!?" kind of news to me.

Step one, secure a deal.
Step two, break deal to renegotiate once prices start falling.
Step three, pay more despite falling prices.

3 ships to house 2010 Olympics security staff in new $76M deal ~viaCBC

I must be looking at this the wrong way because I can't make sense of it.