I’m sure it went something like this...
“You can use the property for free...”
“We’ve received direction from the GAO office that free rooms would represent some sort of conflict of interest. We have to pay rack rates.”
That this isn’t coming out in October means that they found out that there really is a piece of paper somewhere that explains the discrepancy between intention and what happens.
No, they’ll have something else in October. This is just to keep the pot boiling.