diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/SciPy-bundle/SciPy-bundle-2024.05-gfbf-2024a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/SciPy-bundle/SciPy-bundle-2024.05-gfbf-2024a.eb
index 5584d888f308..b15452f6bb59 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/SciPy-bundle/SciPy-bundle-2024.05-gfbf-2024a.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/SciPy-bundle/SciPy-bundle-2024.05-gfbf-2024a.eb
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@ builddependencies = [
     ('Ninja', '1.12.1'),
     ('pkgconf', '2.2.0'),  # required by scipy
     ('Cython', '3.0.10'),  # required by numpy and scipy
+    ('pybind11', '2.12.0'),  # required by scipy
 ]
 
 dependencies = [
     ('Python', '3.12.3'),
     ('Python-bundle-PyPI', '2024.06'),
-    ('pybind11', '2.12.0'),  # required by scipy
 ]
 
 use_pip = True