  A two-gluon-exchange model incorporating perturbative and non-perturbative
effects is presented for rho electroproduction which provides an excellent
description of all current data. This is then used to calculate the
contribution from the rho to deeply virtual Compton scattering via the
vector-meson-dominance transition rho -> gamma. This is found to be
sufficiently large to provide a significant contribution through interference
with the perturbative QCD term.
