diff --git a/providers/openfeature-provider-ofrep/pyproject.toml b/providers/openfeature-provider-ofrep/pyproject.toml
index 30a174da..30c59e28 100644
--- a/providers/openfeature-provider-ofrep/pyproject.toml
+++ b/providers/openfeature-provider-ofrep/pyproject.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ classifiers = [
 keywords = []
 dependencies = [
   "openfeature-sdk>=0.7.0",
-  "requests"
+  "requests>=2.27.0"
 ]
 requires-python = ">=3.8"