How the Orlando experience tightened naval engine procurement

Did the Royal Navy become stricter about shipyard and engine variations after the Orlando problems?

Yes, especially for machinery: engines increasingly had to meet specified performance, and the Navy's buying power reshaped the supplier market.

Early steam procurement drew on many firms producing relatively few engines, so the Navy often had to accept what suppliers could provide. After the Orlando problems, it became more willing to reject machinery that missed the required figures. Because the Royal Navy was Britain's dominant steam-engine customer for decades, those standards encouraged capable firms to expand and pushed weaker suppliers out of the market.