diff --git a/dependencies/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/tools/opensource/dependencies/Bom.java b/dependencies/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/tools/opensource/dependencies/Bom.java
index 3d3531044..61d5912ef 100644
--- a/dependencies/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/tools/opensource/dependencies/Bom.java
+++ b/dependencies/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/tools/opensource/dependencies/Bom.java
@@ -148,6 +148,14 @@ public static boolean shouldSkipBomMember(Artifact artifact) {
       return true;
     }
 
+    // Skipping grpc-android as it is not used by Google Cloud Client Libraries for Java. Checking
+    // for availability of
+    // this unused artifact on Maven Central has caused BOM validation check to fail in the past. See
+    // https://github.com/googleapis/sdk-platform-java/pull/1989#issuecomment-1724039670
+    if ("grpc-android".equals(artifact.getArtifactId())) {
+      return true;
+    }
+
     return false;
   }
 }
diff --git a/dependencies/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/tools/opensource/dependencies/BomTest.java b/dependencies/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/tools/opensource/dependencies/BomTest.java
index 200d7e8ca..87fdc05c7 100644
--- a/dependencies/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/tools/opensource/dependencies/BomTest.java
+++ b/dependencies/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/tools/opensource/dependencies/BomTest.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.util.List;
 import org.eclipse.aether.artifact.Artifact;
+import org.eclipse.aether.artifact.DefaultArtifact;
 import org.eclipse.aether.resolution.ArtifactDescriptorException;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
@@ -77,4 +78,9 @@ public void testReadBom_path()
         .inOrder();
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testIsSkipped_grpcAndroid() {
+    Artifact artifact = new DefaultArtifact("io.grpc:grpc-android:jar:1.58.0");
+    Truth.assertThat(Bom.shouldSkipBomMember(artifact)).isTrue();
+  }
 }