What is the ruling on a university employee, responsible for ordering laboratory supplies, submitting a price quote to the purchasing committee on behalf of a friend's company to sell the same required items, knowing that he does not have the authority to approve or reject the request, and is the money earned from this considered permissible?
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It is permissible for your colleague to participate in the tender so long as the company's regulations do not prohibit it, and he is not a member of the purchasing committee, and he has no involvement in its decision, and he is not privy to the bids of other companies.
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