diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 5aa275e..8accc6d 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
         keys:
         - v3-dependencies-{{ checksum "Pipfile.lock" }}
         - v3-dependencies-default
-    - run: &install-pipenv pip install -U pipenv pip --quiet --no-input
+    - run: &install-pipenv pip install -U setuptools pipenv pip --quiet --no-input
     - run: pipenv sync --dev
     - run: pipenv check # before save_cache so an insecure cache is never saved
     - run: make lambda-layers/DependenciesLayer/requirements.txt