diff --git a/Directory.Build.props b/Directory.Build.props
index 960eb6c9aa0..37feef5e5fd 100644
--- a/Directory.Build.props
+++ b/Directory.Build.props
@@ -18,16 +18,6 @@
     <IsShipping>false</IsShipping>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
-  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(DotNetBuildFromSource)' == 'true'">
-    <!--    
-      When building using source-build the process is:
-      - Newtonsoft.Json versions 9.0.1 and 12.0.2 are built by source-build
-      - Version 12.0.2 is written to Version.props
-      - Arcade needs to use 9.0.1 so we need to override Version.props value here
-    -->
-    <NewtonsoftJsonVersion>9.0.1</NewtonsoftJsonVersion>
-  </PropertyGroup>
-
   <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(DotNetBuildOffline)' == 'true'">
     <!--
       Arcade has a special version prop for CodeAnalysis.CSharp in GenFacades
diff --git a/eng/Versions.props b/eng/Versions.props
index c7bb8c5cd55..57126e8beba 100644
--- a/eng/Versions.props
+++ b/eng/Versions.props
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
     <MoqVersion>4.8.3</MoqVersion>
     <MonoOptionsVersion>5.3.0.1</MonoOptionsVersion>
     <McMasterExtensionsCommandLineUtils>2.3.0</McMasterExtensionsCommandLineUtils>
-    <NewtonsoftJsonVersion>9.0.1</NewtonsoftJsonVersion>
+    <NewtonsoftJsonVersion>13.0.1</NewtonsoftJsonVersion>
     <SystemTextJsonVersion>4.7.0</SystemTextJsonVersion>
     <NuGetVersioningVersion>4.4.0</NuGetVersioningVersion>
     <NuGetVersion>5.6.0-preview.2.6489</NuGetVersion>
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.DotNet.Build.Tasks.Feed.Tests/Microsoft.DotNet.Build.Tasks.Feed.Tests.csproj b/src/Microsoft.DotNet.Build.Tasks.Feed.Tests/Microsoft.DotNet.Build.Tasks.Feed.Tests.csproj
index df1f49fcf60..d782557cdbb 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.DotNet.Build.Tasks.Feed.Tests/Microsoft.DotNet.Build.Tasks.Feed.Tests.csproj
+++ b/src/Microsoft.DotNet.Build.Tasks.Feed.Tests/Microsoft.DotNet.Build.Tasks.Feed.Tests.csproj
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Console" Version="$(MicrosoftExtensionsLoggingConsoleVersion)" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.SymbolUploader" Version="$(MicrosoftSymbolUploaderVersion)" />
     <PackageReference Include="Moq" Version="$(MoqVersion)" />
-    <!-- This is here so that we agree with the feed tasks project's transitive reference to NewtonSoft.Json and Azure.Core -->
-    <PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.Json" Version="12.0.3" />
     <PackageReference Include="System.Text.Encodings.Web" Version="$(SystemTextEncodingsWebVersion)" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.DotNet.Helix/Sdk.Tests/Microsoft.DotNet.Helix.Sdk.Tests/Microsoft.DotNet.Helix.Sdk.Tests.csproj b/src/Microsoft.DotNet.Helix/Sdk.Tests/Microsoft.DotNet.Helix.Sdk.Tests/Microsoft.DotNet.Helix.Sdk.Tests.csproj
index 5de33cd0a4f..8234c24fa7e 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.DotNet.Helix/Sdk.Tests/Microsoft.DotNet.Helix.Sdk.Tests/Microsoft.DotNet.Helix.Sdk.Tests.csproj
+++ b/src/Microsoft.DotNet.Helix/Sdk.Tests/Microsoft.DotNet.Helix.Sdk.Tests/Microsoft.DotNet.Helix.Sdk.Tests.csproj
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
     <PackageReference Include="coverlet.collector" Version="1.0.1" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection" Version="2.1.1" />
     <PackageReference Include="Moq" Version="4.8.3" />
+    <!-- This is here so that we agree with the project's transitive references to NewtonSoft.Json -->
+    <PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.Json" Version="$(NewtonsoftJsonVersion)" />
     <PackageReference Include="System.Text.Encodings.Web" Version="$(SystemTextEncodingsWebVersion)" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.DotNet.VersionTools.Tasks.Tests/Microsoft.DotNet.VersionTools.Tasks.Tests.csproj b/src/Microsoft.DotNet.VersionTools.Tasks.Tests/Microsoft.DotNet.VersionTools.Tasks.Tests.csproj
index 7d9fb9a13a9..8486e254162 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.DotNet.VersionTools.Tasks.Tests/Microsoft.DotNet.VersionTools.Tasks.Tests.csproj
+++ b/src/Microsoft.DotNet.VersionTools.Tasks.Tests/Microsoft.DotNet.VersionTools.Tasks.Tests.csproj
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
   <ItemGroup>
     <PackageReference Include="FluentAssertions" Version="$(FluentAssertionsVersion)" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection" Version="$(MicrosoftExtensionsDependencyInjectionVersion)" />
+    <!-- This is here so that we agree with the project's transitive references to NewtonSoft.Json -->
+    <PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.Json" Version="$(NewtonsoftJsonVersion)" />
     <PackageReference Include="NuGet.Frameworks" Version="$(NuGetVersion)" />
   </ItemGroup>