What is to prevent a contractor from dragging out and filing for substantial completion if there was a delay?

What is to prevent a contractor from dragging out and filing for substantial completion if there was a delay?  (To increase length of Overhead claim?)  And or doing added work un-necessarily sequentially etc, not even submitting for SC when they can and having some of the work done in Punchlist?

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