diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1f8596304705..fd8ca0c668da 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -39,3 +39,12 @@ For Day 1 cutover, once we have main branch:
 - Update `googleapis_commit.txt` to an appropriate value
 - Update `.github/workflows/googleapis_hermetic_sync.yaml` to point to
   the main branch.
+
+### The BOM coverage and its version
+
+Review the artifact name "google-cloud-gapic-bom" in the bom directory and
+configure the version managed by Release Please. Ensure the BOM is part of the
+entire release pipeline.
+
+Confirm the effective-pom (`mvn help:effective-pom`) of the BOM covers the same
+member of the google-cloud-bom except the handwritten libraries.
diff --git a/bom.pom.xml b/bom.pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..223ca7973f8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bom.pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
+  <artifactId>google-cloud-gapic-bom</artifactId>
+  <packaging>pom</packaging>
+  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-gapic-bom:current} -->
+  <name>Google Cloud Java BOM</name>
+  <url>https://github.com/googleapis/java-cloud-bom</url>
+  <description>
+    BOM for the libraries in google-cloud-java repository. Users should not
+    depend on this artifact explicitly because this BOM is an implementation
+    detail of the Libraries BOM.
+  </description>
+  <dependencyManagement>
+    <dependencies>
+BOM_ARTIFACT_LIST
+    </dependencies>
+  </dependencyManagement>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>1.6.13</version>
+        <extensions>true</extensions>
+        <configuration>
+          <serverId>sonatype-nexus-staging</serverId>
+          <nexusUrl>https://google.oss.sonatype.org/</nexusUrl>
+          <autoReleaseAfterClose>false</autoReleaseAfterClose>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>3.12.0</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <skipDeploy>true</skipDeploy>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+
+  <profiles>
+    <profile>
+      <id>release</id>
+      <activation>
+        <property>
+          <name>performRelease</name>
+        </property>
+      </activation>
+      <build>
+        <plugins>
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>3.0.1</version>
+            <executions>
+              <execution>
+                <id>sign-artifacts</id>
+                <phase>verify</phase>
+                <goals>
+                  <goal>sign</goal>
+                </goals>
+                <configuration>
+                  <gpgArguments>
+                    <arg>--pinentry-mode</arg>
+                    <arg>loopback</arg>
+                  </gpgArguments>
+                </configuration>
+              </execution>
+            </executions>
+          </plugin>
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>3.2.1</version>
+            <executions>
+              <execution>
+                <id>attach-sources</id>
+                <goals>
+                  <goal>jar-no-fork</goal>
+                </goals>
+              </execution>
+            </executions>
+          </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+      </build>
+    </profile>
+  </profiles>
+</project>
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diff --git a/bootstrap.sh b/bootstrap.sh
index adf27be084a3..9abd98399aaf 100755
--- a/bootstrap.sh
+++ b/bootstrap.sh
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ do
   text=${text/api_shortname/api-name}
   echo -e "\n"$text>> ${service}/.OwlBot.yaml
   git add .
+  git config --add secrets.allowed "dest.*src"
   git commit -am "chore: setup owlbot configuration"
 
   cd ../google-cloud-java
@@ -63,10 +64,56 @@ cd google-cloud-java
 git add pom.xml
 git commit -am 'feat: create aggregator pom'
 
+# generate BOM of the artifacts in this repository
+bom_lines=""
+for bom_directory in $(find . -name 'google-*-bom' | sort); do
+  repo_metadata="${bom_directory}/../.repo-metadata.json"
+  pom_file="${bom_directory}/pom.xml"
+  groupId_line=$(grep --max-count=1 'groupId' "${pom_file}")
+  artifactId_line=$(grep --max-count=1 'artifactId' "${pom_file}")
+  version_line=$(grep --max-count=1 'x-version-update' "${pom_file}")
+  if ! grep --quiet '"release_level": "stable"' "${repo_metadata}"; then
+    # Not including non-GA libraries, except those that happened to be included
+    # already in google-cloud-bom.
+    if [[ $artifactId_line != *"google-cloud-datalabeling"* ]] \
+        && [[ $artifactId_line != *"google-cloud-errorreporting"* ]] \
+        && [[ $artifactId_line != *"google-cloud-logging-logback"* ]] \
+        && [[ $artifactId_line != *"google-cloud-mediatranslation"* ]] \
+        && [[ $artifactId_line != *"google-cloud-nio"* ]] \
+        && [[ $artifactId_line != *"google-cloud-notification"* ]] \
+        && [[ $artifactId_line != *"google-cloud-phishingprotection"* ]]; then
+      echo "Not adding ${pom_file} to the BOM because it's not stable."
+      continue
+    fi
+  fi
+
+  bom_lines+="      <dependency>
+      ${groupId_line}
+      ${artifactId_line}
+      ${version_line}
+        <type>pom</type>
+        <scope>import</scope>
+      </dependency>
+"
+done
+
+mkdir google-cloud-gapic-bom
+awk -v "dependencyManagements=$bom_lines" '{gsub(/BOM_ARTIFACT_LIST/,dependencyManagements)}1' \
+    ../../bom.pom.xml > google-cloud-gapic-bom/pom.xml
+
+git add google-cloud-gapic-bom/pom.xml
+git commit -am 'feat: create bom module'
+
+# Confirm everything is fine so far
+mvn -q -B -ntp validate
+
+
+# Template files
 cp -r --preserve=all ../../templates/. ./
 git add --all
 git commit -m 'chore: add template files'
 
+
 # generate coverage report
 mkdir CoverageAggregator
 cp ../../coverage.pom.xml CoverageAggregator/pom.xml
diff --git a/parent.pom.xml b/parent.pom.xml
index cb750a374840..5f31cc3520ab 100644
--- a/parent.pom.xml
+++ b/parent.pom.xml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
   </properties>
 
   <modules>
+    <module>google-cloud-gapic-bom</module>
   </modules>
 
   <build>