I can tell you for certain that the ORD did not require the aircraft to go down the CVS elevator.
I believe that. However, by the time the JORD - which was the only ORD, previous versions having been interim - was blessed and issued in 2000, the program was inextricably committed to one of two basic designs that dated to 1995-96, when the expectation was that the JSF would serve on the CVS.