Bids were due Thursday and more than 100 cities — including Milwaukee — have said they planned to give it a try, CNBC said.

Some cities are going big in their effort to woo Amazon. The Tucson area, for example, trucked a 21-foot saguaro cactus to Amazon, and the city of Stonecrest, Georgia, said it would rename a 345-acre site “the city of Amazon” if it is chosen, according to CNN.

Madison is not staging a splashy come-on to get Amazon’s attention, said Matthew Mikolajewski, Madison economic development division director.

He said the city and MadREP put together “a very nice proposal, a professional proposal. But we are not doing any razzle-dazzle kind of thing.”

While there’s no international airport in Madison, it’s a short ride to Chicago’s O’Hare airport or Milwaukee’s airport, he said, and the area has high points that might interest Amazon: A relatively low cost of living and of operating a facility here, with a high quality of life.

“Although we didn’t necessarily meet all the criteria to the letter, we have the story, especially rooted in our workforce, our educational system and our quality of life, that would make us a great place to have an expanded Amazon presence,” Mikolajewski said.