diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8527b47b..c15055e7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "gurobipy-pandas>=1.0.0",
     "numpy",
     "pandas",
-    "scipy",
+    "scipy>=1.8.0",
 ]
 dynamic = ["version"]