diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
index ee478167464..bf3f9701934 100644
--- a/dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ pytest>6
 requests
 scikit-build
 setuptools_scm
-sortedcontainers
 sphinx<7.2
 sphinx-argparse
 sphinx-autoapi
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c038908cdf9..3327489c4f4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ def package_files(directory):
         "qtpy",
         "requests",
         "scipy >= 1.10.1",
+        "sortedcontainers",
         "sqlalchemy",
         "uvicorn >= 0.17.0",
         "websockets",