diff --git a/tools/pip-requires b/tools/pip-requires
index 2132340fb9..1c5dd413cd 100644
--- a/tools/pip-requires
+++ b/tools/pip-requires
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ eventlet>=0.9.12
 lxml
 mox==0.5.3
 python-gflags==1.3
-simplejson
 sqlalchemy
 webob==1.0.8