No you can not insist a partial handover. However, any additional cost and risk that this compensation event will incur can be priced for within that quotation including any additional security. I would recommend raising an early warning about this potential issue, and at a resultant risk reduction meeting agree the actions to be taken which will probably culminate in a Project Manager instruction. Another tool that could be used is Project Manager assumptions within the quotation - i.e. get the PM to confirm the assumptions the Contractor should assume (particularly in this case for damage/theft) and any resultant risk that the PM is willing to take. Any changes to these assumptions would be a new compensation event.
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