The winners of the 23rd Golden Thumb Awards for Private Participation in Infrastructure Projects have been announced! Following rigorous evaluation and on-site inspections, 10 teams out of 23 finalists have received this prestigious honor, including Everrich Duty Free Shop Corporation. In two PPP projects, both the government agency teams and private institution teams simultaneously received the Award: the "Qingshui Service Area’s Renovation and Expansion BOT Project of National Freeway No. 3" and the "Taipei Nangang Biotech Industry Cluster Development (BOT) Project (Zhongxiao Military Camp Original Site and West Side Municipal Land) ." The 23rd Golden Thumb Awards ceremony will be held on November 28 at the Taipei International Convention Center, with Executive Yuan officers presenting the awards to the winning teams. Details of all award winners and reasons for their selection are provided as follows.
Everrich is the only Private Team winning the Special Award and the Welfare Award for the "Taoyuan International Airport Terminal 2 Restricted Area C Comprehensive Duty-Free Shop Investment Project." Everrich utilized its creativity and technology to rejuvenate public infrastructure space with intelligent and accessible design, creating a quality passenger waiting area and enhancing the national image of Taoyuan International Airport. During the expansion period, the company adopted the more challenging nighttime construction approach to minimize impact on terminal operations and passenger flow. Furthermore, during the pandemic, the company demonstrated its corporate social responsibility through the action of "no layoffs, no salary reductions."
Freeway Bureau, MOTC, implemented the "National Freeway No. 3 Qingshui Service Area Renovation and Expansion BOT Project" with an innovative "incentive-based variable royalty" mechanism, encouraging the private institution, President Chain Store Corporation, to invest funds and exceed previous operational performance. President Chain Store Corporation, with "service orientation" as its core, demonstrated operational creativity by renovating facilities based on road users' needs, redesigning the facade, optimizing traffic flow, and adding escalators. During the renovation period, temporary retail outlets and restrooms were set up, and through sectioned construction and traffic management, the impact on passengers and operations was effectively minimized.
In addition, the Department of Economic Development, Taipei City Government, and Shih-Kang Development Limited Corporation collaborated on the "Taipei Nangang Biotech Industry Cluster Development (BOT) Project (Zhongxiao Military Camp Original Site and West Side Municipal Land)," which is Taiwan’s first BOT project focused on the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. To bridge the gap in the biotech industry chain from clinical trials to pilot production, the Department of Economic Development, Taipei City Government selected land adjacent to Academia Sinica, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and the National Biotechnology Research Park. The project site was acquired through compensated allocation of public land and negotiated purchase of private land. Together with Shih-Kang Development Limited Corporation, they jointly planned to allocate a certain proportion of space as an incubation center and provide shared instruments and equipment according to tenant companies' needs, supporting biotech startups and forming a complete biotech R&D, incubation, and industrialization chain, creating a national-level biotech industry corridor.
The Ministry of Finance further noted that to recognize the winning projects, the 23rd Golden Thumb Awards ceremony is scheduled to be held on November 28, 2025, at Conference Room 101 of the Taipei International Convention Center. All sectors are welcome to participate, and congratulations to all winning teams!
For the latest information about the Award, kindly check the link below.
https://ppp.mof.gov.tw/WWW/gta/news.aspx
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