No. A private commercial projection is not a promised government return on the gift.
Keep the promises attached to the right transaction
Examine any private proposal on its actual terms and do not count its purchase price as the government gift without a valid basis in the official instructions. This distinction does not recommend the investment or guarantee that it will return capital. Keep two ledgers that never share a line.
The first records anything paid into a private transaction, with the payee, the date and the document behind it. The second records what the official process requires, taken only from current official sources on the day it is written down, because these terms may be revised and a figure remembered from a presentation is not a source. A projected commercial return belongs in the first ledger and describes a business outcome that may or may not occur; it is not a return offered by the government, and no part of the payment made under the official process is presented as recoverable.
Hypothetical example: a promoter shows an industrial designer a projected return and describes it as the programme's yield, and separating the ledgers makes the mismatch obvious. Date every entry in both ledgers on the day it is made and cite the source beside it. An amount carrying no date and no source cannot be checked six months later, and the entries most likely to be relied on are exactly the ones most likely to have moved in the meantime.