diff --git a/requirements/edx/base.txt b/requirements/edx/base.txt
index 40d9840c90..6b0c0a6e4b 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx/base.txt
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ pygments==2.0.1
 pygraphviz==1.1
 PyJWT==1.4.0
 pymongo==2.9.1
-pyparsing==2.0.7
 python-memcached==1.48
 python-openid==2.2.5
 python-dateutil==2.1
diff --git a/requirements/edx/pre.txt b/requirements/edx/pre.txt
index 5ee8cc9af8..2005ea12b8 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/pre.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx/pre.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #   * @edx/devops - to check system requirements
 
 # Packaging pre-requisites.
+pyparsing==2.0.7
 setuptools==34.0.2
 pip==9.0.1