diff --git a/openbmctool/build-scripts/openbmctool-rhel7.spec b/openbmctool/build-scripts/openbmctool-rhel7.spec
index 7769223..38ae9c6 100644
--- a/openbmctool/build-scripts/openbmctool-rhel7.spec
+++ b/openbmctool/build-scripts/openbmctool-rhel7.spec
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 
 Requires: python36
 Requires: python36-requests
-Requires: python36-simplejson
 
 # Turn off the brp-python-bytecompile script
 %global __os_install_post %(echo '%{__os_install_post}' | sed -e 's!/usr/lib[^[:space:]]*/brp-python-bytecompile[[:space:]].*$!!g')
diff --git a/openbmctool/build-scripts/openbmctool-rhel8.spec b/openbmctool/build-scripts/openbmctool-rhel8.spec
index 2d0c222..c3bf217 100644
--- a/openbmctool/build-scripts/openbmctool-rhel8.spec
+++ b/openbmctool/build-scripts/openbmctool-rhel8.spec
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 
 Requires: python3
 Requires: python3-requests
-Requires: python3-simplejson
 
 # Turn off the brp-python-bytecompile script
 %global __os_install_post %(echo '%{__os_install_post}' | sed -e 's!/usr/lib[^[:space:]]*/brp-python-bytecompile[[:space:]].*$!!g')