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Construction handover & O&M manuals

Digital handover manuals, on the day. PC day.

Collect, review and manage O&M documentation throughout your project — so your handover manual is ready when PC arrives.

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The bomm projects dashboard: each project’s documented percentage and PC date, files waiting for review, and overdue documents by trade.

Left: what the project manager sees. Right: what a trade sees on their phone.

The problem

Still chasing O&M documents at PC?

The documents aren’t the hard part. Getting hundreds of them from dozens of trades and suppliers, checking each one, and knowing what’s still missing is. Left until the end, it becomes the last thing standing between you and PC.

See how bomm fixes it
Sent itemsTwo weeks before PC
  • Where’s the warranty for the HWS?Sent 3 weeks before PC
  • Has the electrical certificate been issued?Follow-up #2
  • Can you resend that? It’s unsigned.Follow-up #3
  • Is this the right version of the as-builts?Reply all
  • What’s still outstanding from mechanical?4 days before PC
Sound familiar? Handover shouldn’t be a scavenger hunt.

  • Missing documents

    Warranties, certificates, manuals and compliance docs that should have arrived months ago.

  • Endless emails

    The same request sent to the same trade three times, with the answers buried in different threads.

  • Spreadsheets that only track

    A list of what you need is useful. It doesn’t ask, chase, review or file anything.

  • Wrong or incomplete submissions

    Unsigned, outdated, the wrong format or for the wrong trade. Received isn’t the same as right.

  • No clear view of what’s left

    A folder tells you what you have. It doesn’t tell you what you’re missing.

  • Compiling under pressure

    Someone builds the manual by hand while everyone else is closing out defects.

How it works

Handover starts before handover.

Don’t build the O&M manual at practical completion. Build it throughout the project, one document at a time, as each trade finishes their work.

The usual way, chasing, reviewing and compiling all happen in the last few weeks before PC. With bomm, requirements are set at kick-off, documents are collected and reviewed throughout the project, and the manual is generated at PC.
  1. Step 1: Set up

    Set the requirements

    Start from a template for the job type. Every document you need is listed and assigned to the trade or supplier who owes it, with a due date.

  2. Step 2: Collect

    Trades send as they go

    Each trade gets a link to their own list and uploads from a phone or a desk. Reminders go out before and after each due date, so you don’t have to.

  3. Step 3: Review

    Check it while it’s fresh

    Approve a document, or send it back with a note saying what to fix. Overdue and outstanding items stay in plain sight.

  4. Step 4: Close

    Generate the manual

    At PC, bind every approved document into one indexed PDF with a cover and contents page — or a structured ZIP.

For project managers and contract admins

One view of every document, trade and outstanding item.

Know what’s outstanding before it becomes a PC problem. Each project shows how much is documented, how long until PC, and exactly where the gaps are.

What’s missing
Every requirement not yet uploaded, by trade.
What’s overdue
Past its due date, and who it’s waiting on.
What needs your review
Submitted documents waiting for a yes or a note.
What’s done
Approved and ready to go into the manual.

Construction managers and directors: one template per job type means every PM runs handover the same way, and you can see every project’s status on one screen.

A project in bomm: 67% documented, 3 files ready to review, 2 tasks overdue, and every document task grouped by trade with who owes it and when.
The trade portal home on a phone: what to send next, when it’s due, and every project they’re on.
The trade portal on a phone: one document to send, a note from the project manager explaining what to fix, and a large upload button.

For subcontractors and suppliers

One link. One list. One upload.

Your trades don’t want another system to learn, and they don’t need one. They see exactly what you need from them, when it’s due, and a button to send it.

  • A link in their inbox

    Your request email takes them straight to their list. No app to download, nothing to buy.

  • Upload from the ute

    Built for a phone on site. Big buttons, plain words, and a progress bar they can see.

  • Sent back? They see why

    If a document isn’t right, your note sits right under it. No phone tag.

  • Reminded, not nagged

    Automatic emails three, two and one week out, on the day, and once it’s overdue.

Built for handover, not adapted to it

The bits that make handover boring.

You don’t need somewhere else to store documents. You need the bit in between: who owes what, what’s arrived, whether it’s right, and what’s left.

  • Spreadsheets track what you need, but don’t collect it.
  • Email asks for documents, then scatters the answers.
  • Shared folders store what arrived, but can’t tell you what didn’t.

Document review

Catch problems before they’re in the manual

Work through a review queue. Approve, or send a document back with a note — the trade sees it straight away.

The review queue: three submitted documents waiting for approval, alongside every requirement marked approved, not uploaded or changes requested.

Manual generation

The handover package, done

Cover, contents page with page numbers, a divider for each section, then every approved document — in one PDF, or a structured ZIP.

The handover manual page: a summary of approved and outstanding documents, a cover preview, and a button to generate the manual.

  • Project templates

    Start every job with a repeatable process. Australian starter templates included, or bring your own.

  • Trade document tasks

    Everyone knows exactly what they need to provide, and you know who owes what.

  • Due dates and outstanding items

    Gaps show up weeks before PC, while the people who can fix them are still on the job.

  • Automated reminders

    Follow-ups go out on a schedule, so chasing stops being someone’s job.

  • Trade portal, phone-first

    Submitting is easy enough that trades actually do it.

  • AI-assisted filing

    Got a pile of files? Drop them in together and each one is matched to the right requirement for you to confirm.

The outcome

When PC arrives, you’re ready.

Your team spends the last weeks closing out defects and handing over to the client — not hunting for a warranty from a trade who left site in March.

Make handover boring.

  • ChasingManaging

    The system asks and reminds. You make the calls that need a person.

  • ScatteredStructured

    Every document filed against the requirement it meets, not lost in a thread.

  • Last-minuteProgressive

    The manual builds itself across the job instead of in the final fortnight.

  • UncertaintyVisibility

    You know what you’ve got and what’s missing, any day of the project.

Your first project

Send us your next project. We’ll set it up for you.

The hardest part of new software is setting it up. So we do that part. You see bomm working on a real job, without configuring anything yourself.

What we set up

  • The project template for your job type
  • Every document requirement, assigned to the right trade
  • Your trades and suppliers, loaded and invited
  • A walkthrough for your team, so they’re running from day one

How it goes

  1. 1

    Tell us about the job

    A few lines below is plenty.

  2. 2

    We set it up with you

    A short call to agree the requirements and trades.

  3. 3

    Your trades get their links

    Documents start arriving while the job is still running.

Get your first project set up

Or email hello@bommanuals.com

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