can quotes be considered in planning application?

we have a lot of business (which is growing) for Tenders….  This is where
we go out and “bid” for business – but do not know if we have one it until the
Tender is awarded … A bit like “Ebay “

Some of these tender orders are quite large – with 3x monthly consumption of some
parts…

At the moment – we do not enter any of these “Tenders” until we know we have
won…  Normally – the customer want to whole tender order shipping within a week or so…. 

As you can imagine – not entering these until we have won then business … leads us into