You are agency on a labour only basis,all plant and materials are supplied by company.
If they don't give you drill bits do not drill any holes if they are desperate they can get drill bits in an hour.
It depends on the company policy whether to provide actual plant or not. They should provide expendables but not necessarily drills etc.
I think it was stainless, im not sure, I just thought it was because it was shiney. I had a length of steel given and I was making some fishing lures with it, it took me 2 hours to drill the first one with a bosch HSS bit, I did the rest in 20mins with the TCT. Maybe it was my technique or maybe I had the drill bit in the wrong way roundHSS will machine stainless lovely....
as long as the tip is ground and set rite...
Or not it depends on company policy and contract etc.
Some companies pay more but you supply all hand,power and some consumerbles