diff --git a/requirements/README.md b/requirements/README.md
index 29bbad1158..3aeede1db2 100644
--- a/requirements/README.md
+++ b/requirements/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 The requirements.txt and requirements_ansible.txt files are generated from requirements.in and requirements_ansible.in, respectively, using `pip-tools` `pip-compile`. The following commands should do this if ran inside the tools_awx container.
 
 Run these commands from the root of the awx repo. This will produce python 3 requirements files.
-If you do not wish to upgrade dependencies generally (such as adding a specific dependency
-needed for a feature) then do not use the `-U` flag.
 
 ```
 python3 -m venv /buildit
diff --git a/requirements/requirements.in b/requirements/requirements.in
index b6c3d2c641..3635efa7b5 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.in
+++ b/requirements/requirements.in
@@ -45,5 +45,5 @@ tacacs_plus==1.0
 twilio==6.10.4
 uWSGI==2.0.17
 uwsgitop==0.10.0
-pip==19.1.1
-setuptools==41.0.1
+pip==9.0.1
+setuptools==36.0.1
diff --git a/requirements/requirements.txt b/requirements/requirements.txt
index 54e3988c98..2f51d67cbd 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -122,5 +122,5 @@ xmlsec==1.3.3             # via python3-saml
 zope.interface==4.6.0     # via twisted
 
 # The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
-pip==19.1.1
-setuptools==41.0.1
+pip==9.0.1
+setuptools==36.0.1
diff --git a/requirements/requirements_ansible.in b/requirements/requirements_ansible.in
index 6ae32e8c8d..6d3f761635 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements_ansible.in
+++ b/requirements/requirements_ansible.in
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ pycurl==7.43.0.1    # higher versions will not install without SSL backend speci
 pexpect==4.6.0    # same as AWX requirement
 psutil==5.4.3    # same as AWX requirement
 ptyprocess==0.5.2 # via pexpect, but needs to be pinned. Read the blame.
-pip==19.1.1
-setuptools==41.0.1
+setuptools==36.0.1
+pip==9.0.1
 # VMware
 pyvmomi==6.5
 # WinRM
diff --git a/requirements/requirements_ansible.txt b/requirements/requirements_ansible.txt
index 7631d616e0..a4f5ff99c5 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements_ansible.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements_ansible.txt
@@ -122,5 +122,5 @@ wheel==0.30.0             # via azure-cli-core
 xmltodict==0.12.0         # via pywinrm
 
 # The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
-pip==19.1.1
-setuptools==41.0.1
+pip==9.0.1
+setuptools==36.0.1